Tag: EOLAS

Tireless patent troll Intellectual Property holder Eolas has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against, well.. nearly everyone. The issue at hand deals with two patents in Eolas' possession -- the first of which was the subject of a successful lawsuit against Microsoft back in 2004. The second patent, what Eolas refers to as "a continuation of the '906 ...

What a long, boring, and annoying trip it's been. For those who don't remember, way back in 1999 a little Chicago company called Eolas sued Microsoft for infringing on their patents regarding embedded content in a browser. Whoopdidoo, right? Microsoft, however, could not crush the little company. So, sparing the gory details reversals and counter-reversals, MS is now required to make changes to ...