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[ NNSquad ] Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Trolls' Claim To Own the Interactive Web
Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Trolls' Claim To Own the Interactive Web
http://j.mp/wlj0go (Wired)
"After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle
and his patent-holding company Eola - named after the Irish word for
knowledge - may be finished. An eight-member federal jury in East
Texas deliberated Thursday for just a few hours before concluding that
all of Eolas' asserted claims of ownership to technology allowing
access to the interactive web were invalid. That means the three
upcoming trials that were scheduled to rule on infringement and
damages, for Google, Yahoo, and other companies, have been cancelled.
The eight defendant companies who resisted the lawsuits won't pay
anything to Eolas , or its partner the University of California, for
using the web."
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--Lauren--
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