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By Compiled by Kathlyn Card-Beckles
September 01, 2003

Jury Rules Against Microsoft in Patent Infringement Case

On August 11, 2003 a jury in the Northern District of Illinois awarded Eolas Technologies, Inc. $521 million in damages for patent infringement against Microsoft Corporation. The patent at issue, U.S. Patent 5,838,906, claims a method of sending interactive software applications over the Internet that makes “plug-ins” and “applets” possible. The suit, 99-CV-626, was filed in 1999 by Eolas, the exclusive licensee of the patent owned by the University of California. While at the University of California, Michael Doyle, founder of Eolas, helped develop the technology as a way of assisting medical students and practitioners to access inexpensive, high-resolution medical-image data over the Internet. The suit alleged that Microsoft began using the technology in its Web browser soon after the patent was filed and continued to use it after the patent issued in 1998. Eolas stated that a license had been offered to Microsoft, but the offer was declined.

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