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Eolas Sues High Profile Companies over Web Technology
Eolas has filed a suit against a long list of companies in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for alleged patent infringement of two of Eolas’s patents. The suit seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions prohibiting the plaintiffs from using the patents, and payment of damages. The list includes high-profile companies in different business sectors, including Adobe Systems, Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Frito Lay, JP Morgan Chase, Office Depot and Playboy Enterprises. The suit follows on a previous patent infringement case brought by Eolas against Microsoft, relating to the same technology, which was settled in 2007.
The Eolas patents describe technology that allows a browser to access and activate an embedded program on a webpage. The suit alleges that the defendants infringed the patents by allowing webpages and content to be interactively presented in browsers. Eolas seeks treble damages in the suit as Eolas alleges that the infringements were willful based on the fact that the validity of one of Eolas’ patents has been confirmed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on three occasions in the past.
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/pdfs/eolas.pdf