- Apr 9, 2008
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Eolas Technologies - the intellectual property holding company which successfully sued Microsoft for the princely sum of $512 million - has filed suit against what appears to be most of the Internet, plus a few miscellaneous companies for good measure.
According to an article over on DownloadSquad, the infamous company - which describes itself as an "Internet technology provider" - has filed suit in Texas this week 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."
The main patent in the case - number 7,599,985 - is described as a "continuation of the '906 patent" which saw the company gaining a multi-million dollar judgement against Microsoft a few years ago, and covers the idea that websites can "add fully-interactive embedded applications to their online offerings through the use of plug-in [sic] and AJAX web development techniques" and was issued to the company earlier this month.
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So basically they are claiming they invented the ability to embed media in HTML (which they did 15 years ago) and only now has their patent been granted which has led to to sue the majority of well-known internet companies.