THESTAR.COM The Internet was saved in a Texas courtroom Thursday after a protracted three-year legal battle. A $600 million patent infringement lawsuit launched by a tiny tech company against eight of the world’s biggest corporations, including Google, Yahoo, Amazon and YouTube, ended after a three-day trial in sleepy Tyler, Texas.
Patents on “the interactive web” belonging to Eolas Technologies were declared invalid by a jury. And with that, the threat to future of the online innovation, as feared by Tim Berners-Lee (one of the so-called fathers of the Internet) is over. Eolas had asserted it holds two valid patents on the method that allows web browsers to be interactive. Dr. Michael Doyle, chairman of Eolas, allegedly developed the software in 1993 with two colleagues at the University of California.
Patents on “the interactive web” belonging to Eolas Technologies were declared invalid by a jury. And with that, the threat to future of the online innovation, as feared by Tim Berners-Lee (one of the so-called fathers of the Internet) is over. Eolas had asserted it holds two valid patents on the method that allows web browsers to be interactive. Dr. Michael Doyle, chairman of Eolas, allegedly developed the software in 1993 with two colleagues at the University of California.
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