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____/ Lusotec on Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 23:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Everyone Gets Sued for AJAX Patent?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Internet technology provider Eolas Technologies
>> | Inc. is announcing a Texas federal lawsuit
>> | filed today to assert the company's
>> | intellectual property rights based on two
>> | groundbreaking patents, including one that has
>> | passed two separate reexaminations at the
>> | United States Patent and Trademark Office
>> | (USPTO) and resulted in a $565 million federal
>> | court judgment in 2004.
>> `----
>> http://imvivo.com/DetailsView/tabid/104/IndexID/1779944/Default.aspx
>
> On the same subject:
>
> "We developed these technologies over 15 years ago and demonstrated them
> widely, years before the marketplace had heard of interactive applications
> embedded in Web pages tapping into powerful remote resources. Profiting from
> someone else's innovation without payment is fundamentally unfair. All we
> want is what's fair."
> <http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Eolas-Technologies-Files-
> prnews-153761650.html?x=0&.v=1>
>
> Did these guys got a patent for embedding interactive applications in Web
> pages, capable of "tapping into powerful remote resources" (what ever that
> is)? And isn't that the main use for Java applets (that predate 1993)? If
> this patent is valid what have these guys been waiting for? Did they only
> noticed now the "interactive applications embedded in Web pages tapping into
> powerful remote resources".
>
> Am I the only one that thinks this patent system is terrible broken?!
They sued in Texas, so they have a chance...
> Regards.
>
> p.s. Those "powerful remote resources" probably refers to some military
> hardware or to remote power stations web embedded interactive control
> application. :-D
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