Eolas Technologies, the company that had a legal spat with Microsoft back in 2004/2005 over the way ActiveX worked in IE, is in the spotlight once more as it has decided to sue a heap of companies for allegedly infringing two of its patents."Intellectual property is the lifeblood of the US economy," said Dr. Michael D. Doyle, chairman of Eolas. "We developed these technologies over 15 years ago and demonstrated them widely, years before the marketplace had heard of interactive applications embedded in Web pages tapping into powerful remote resources. Profiting from someone else's innovation without payment is fundamentally unfair. All we want is what's fair."Among the companies named as defendants in Eolas' complaint (filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas) are Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Go Daddy, Google, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Staples, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yahoo and YouTube. Brace yourself for a long trial.
News source: tcmagazine
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