Another Eolas re-exam request
InternetNews | at | by Mike
One of Microsoft's lead intellectual property law firms has asked the United States Patent & Trademark Office to open a new reexamination of the Eolas patent.
The Eolas patent covers "a system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object." Eolas Technologies, the tiny University of California spin-off that received U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906 in 1998, claims that it covers plug-ins, Java applets, scriptlets and Microsoft's ActiveX Controls.