Microsoft is again suing for "foreign" ActiveX
The long-forgotten conflict between Microsoft and Eolas Technology, during which Internet Explorer could lose its ActiveX support, flares up with a new force, reports Techdirt. After losing in court (the Eolas patent was recognized as valid), Microsoft announced after some time that it had invented the technologies described in the patent first.
Since in the USA, unlike in many other countries, the one who first came up with the technology is right, and not the one who first registered it, Microsoft has chances for success. However, for this, she will have to provide evidence that the technology was actually developed earlier than that of Eolas. The next hearing in this case is scheduled for July 9th.
Recall that the first trial between Microsoft and Eolas Technology was held in 2003. U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906, issued in 1998, and owned by Eolas and the University of California, describes a web browsing system with support for small programs that are integrated into online documents. In the case of Internet Explorer, such programs are plug-ins, Java applets, scripting languages, and ActiveX controls.
Microsoft refused to pay a license fee of $ 521 million and filed an appeal, but in January 2004 the court again issued a similar decision, obliging the company to remove the controversial code in the next browser version. As a result, in the beta version of the browser, the code disappeared, causing horror of developers and advertisers, but in the final, everything remained unchanged.
Since in the USA, unlike in many other countries, the one who first came up with the technology is right, and not the one who first registered it, Microsoft has chances for success. However, for this, she will have to provide evidence that the technology was actually developed earlier than that of Eolas. The next hearing in this case is scheduled for July 9th.
Recall that the first trial between Microsoft and Eolas Technology was held in 2003. U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906, issued in 1998, and owned by Eolas and the University of California, describes a web browsing system with support for small programs that are integrated into online documents. In the case of Internet Explorer, such programs are plug-ins, Java applets, scripting languages, and ActiveX controls.
Microsoft refused to pay a license fee of $ 521 million and filed an appeal, but in January 2004 the court again issued a similar decision, obliging the company to remove the controversial code in the next browser version. As a result, in the beta version of the browser, the code disappeared, causing horror of developers and advertisers, but in the final, everything remained unchanged.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/9264/
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