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Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Eolas vs. Microsoft: An expert speaks
Perry Pei-Yuan Wei, the author of the Viola Web browser--created in 1991, incidentally--explains why he believes Eolas' Web browser patent is invalid. Specifically, Wei says that he implemented embedded objects in Viola by late 1992, or about a decade before Eolas was granted the sole licensor or what is clearly a bogus patent for embedded objects in Web browsers. In short, the Eolas case against Microsoft should be thrown out, and Eolas' patent claim (technically it's the University of California's) should be rejected by the US Patent Office. Read this article, it's amazing.

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