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Originally posted by riosluts
umm what is this patent exactly
is it kind of like ACACIA
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Eolas had a patent that they felt covered the use of plugins in a web browser and sued Microsoft for infringement.
The court found Microsoft guilty and slapped a judgement of $531 million for damages.
Microsoft recently lost the appeal.
This news of the USPTO taking up the re-exam request (few months ago), and now coming to a preliminary conclusion that the prior art submitted could invalidate the patent is a very good one.
The USPTO paid attention to this case because the mainstream internet community made alot of noise about it.
While i certainly post alot and on many boards, it's not as big of a noise.
Now that mainstream is covering the Acacia issue, more mainstream noise should be generated.
If enough noise is made, then someone can file a re-exam request and get the USPTO to review it.
Fight the Prior Art!