USPTO invalidates Eolas patent claims

[Waldo Bastian]

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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3322581

"In a preliminary ruling, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office Friday said the 
original HTML specs preceed a patent for Web page plug-ins owned by Eolas 
Technologies, invalidating its patent claims against Microsoft"

"In his review, patent examiner Andrew Caldwell rejected all ten claims of the 
Eolas patent. His ruling references the new prior art submitted by the 
Internet regulatory body W3C, including the draft specifications for 
Hypertext Markup Language by Tim Berners-Lee and others, published in June 
1993; Dave Raggett's specification HTML+ Internet Draft, published in July of 
that year; and a post by Raggett to an Internet news group around that time. 
Raggett works with the W3C on developing standards."

Cheers,
Waldo
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