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Internet browsing patent annulled |
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| Wed, March 10 2004 | 2:23PM | PermaLink |
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Last year an Illinois court ordered Microsoft to pay out $521 million to private firm Eolas Technology for an alleged infringement of technology.
Now the US Patent Office has invalidated the claim by Eolas.
Experts had worried that the changes required would damage the usability of the web. Microsoft had begun to make changes but the work was suspended last month pending the US Patent Office review.
If upheld, the decision would also spare the software giant paying out damages to Eolas.
The disputed code relates to the way Internet Explorer works with programmes such as QuickTime and Flash media players. US Patent 5,838,906, granted in 1998, protects the execution of remote code embedded in hypertext pages.
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