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InternetNews March 2, 2005	Victory For Microsoft in Browser Plug-In Appeal The decision by a U.S. Circuit Court effectively overturns a lower-court ruling that the ActiveX technology used in Internet Explorer infringes on a patent. A loss by Microsoft could have lead to the crippling of a wide variety of common Web applications.
InternetNews June 9, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Fights For Browser Plug-Ins Redmond appeals the patent infringement ruling that barred the use of plug-ins and applets in IE.
InternetNews October 6, 2009	Eolas Sues Almost Everybody Over Browser Apps After Eolas' patent was extended, the tiny firm is taking it to the courts.
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Eolas Patent Survives Re-Exam The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office seems inclined to let an early patent covering browser applets stand, despite opposition from Microsoft and a band of Internet gurus.
InternetNews December 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	IE Changes To Avoid Eolas IP Microsoft changed the way its browser handles ActiveX controls in response to the ongoing Eolas patent infringement suit.
InternetNews August 19, 2004 Ryan Naraine	USPTO Close to Rejecting Plug-in Patent The U.S patent office is a step closer to overturning the controversial browser plug-in patent at the heart of a dispute between Microsoft and Eolas Technologies.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Back to Court for Eolas and Microsoft A federal appeals court sends the patent infringement case back down for another trial.
InternetNews August 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Settles Eolas Suit The long-running legal battle between Microsoft and Eolas Technologies, which Microsoft was losing, has been settled. The two firms agreed to an undisclosed settlement that resolves the case.
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft's Patent Tab: $388M Ought to Do It Jury finds that Microsoft infringed a California company's activation software patent to the tune of nearly $400 million.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	IP Upstarts: Get Microsoft Software vendors are both the victims and victimizers when it comes to patenting technology already in widespread use around the world.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Another Eolas Re-Exam Request One of Microsoft's lead intellectual property law firms has asked the United States Patent & Trademark Office to open a new reexamination of the Eolas patent.
InternetNews December 9, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Appeal Browser Plug-in Ruling Redmond still fighting a patent infringement ruling about its ActiveX technology.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Michael Singer	Windows, IE Browser Changes Suspended Companies dealing with ActiveX are in limbo as unresolved issues in the Eolas patent lawsuit prompt Microsoft to suspend modifications to Windows and Explorer.
InternetNews January 15, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Microsoft To Appeal Latest Browser Ruling The controversial patent spat has taken a new turn with a judge ordering Microsoft to pay $521M in damages, but waiting for an appeal.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Wins One in IE Battle The U.S. Patent Trademark Office's preliminary ruling favors Internet Explorer in the Microsoft/Eolas infringement case.
InternetNews March 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Battles Gold Master Ruling In Eolas patent infringement suit, Microsoft asks judges to decide whether software code is an idea or a thing.
InternetNews September 29, 2009	Judge Overturns Uniloc Verdict and $388M Fine Microsoft could win the equivalent of a damages trifecta across several cases if its luck keeps up.
InternetNews July 21, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Apple, Microsoft Hit With Patent Suits Auto update features could cost computer makers millions.
InternetNews October 31, 2005	High Court Rejects Microsoft Browser Appeal The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft in the long-running patent dispute over browser plug-ins brought by Eolas Technologies.
InternetNews November 30, 2010	Microsoft's i4i Appeal Headed for Supreme Court Microsoft will get a chance to make its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, appealing the earlier patent infringement decision it lost to i4i.
InternetNews May 2, 2007	Federal Judge Approves Alcatel/Microsoft Ruling A $1.53 billion patent infringement suit against Microsoft over MP3 playback is upheld.
InternetNews September 11, 2009	Appeals Court Saves Microsoft $358 Million A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a $358 million damage award against Microsoft in a patent lawsuit is exorbitant, but still found that the software giant had still infringed a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2004 Seth Jayson	Microsoft Wins a Round The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revokes Eolas Technologies' patent on browser plug-ins.
InternetNews March 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft and AT&T Settle Up AT&T is the latest company to get Microsoft to settle a patent infringement lawsuit, closing yet another chapter of the Redmond, Wash.-based software vendor's legal woes.
InternetNews August 31, 2010	Microsoft Appeals Patent Case to Supreme Court Microsoft plays out its hand in effort to reverse the USPTO's ruling that upheld the patent of Toronto-based i4i relating to a custom XML technology.
InternetNews June 19, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Loses Another Round in Excel Patent Case A United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a patent infringement verdict against Microsoft from last year, and as Microsoft protests, the bill piles up.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Kirk Teska	The Story Behind the BlackBerry Case A single filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1991 has caused one of the largest patent disputes in recent memory, threatening to sever more than 3 million BlackBerry subscribers from their wireless e-mail service.
InternetNews May 12, 2010	USPTO Upholds i4i XML Patent in Microsoft Fight Microsoft has been dealt another setback in its long-running dispute with i4i as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has determined that the Toronto firm's Custom XML patent is valid.
InternetNews November 9, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft to Roll Back the Clock on ActiveX Through its settlement with Eolas, Microsoft can remove a lingering year-old change in Internet Explorer's ActiveX behavior.
InternetNews August 7, 2007 Roy Mark	Judge Saves Microsoft $1.5B Alcatel-Lucent plans to appeal the decision reversing the U.S. record infringement award against Microsoft.
InternetNews October 7, 2004 Jim Wagner	Kodak, Sun Settle Patent Case Three days after a jury found Sun Microsystems' Java language had infringed on Eastman Kodak patents, the two parties settled their lawsuit out of court.
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InternetNews May 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	For IT Firms, Patent Reform Is All About Money As battle for patent reform continues on the Hill, tech companies are embroiled in an increasing number of intellectual property disputes, with damages awards all over the map.
InternetNews March 30, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	TomTom Settles Patent Fight With Microsoft After more than a month of suit and countersuit, the navigation device vendor agrees to pay Microsoft for patent rights.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2008 Stephen Albainy-Jenei	One Privileged Position Biomedical Patent Management sued the California Department of Health Services, claiming patent infringement, but the State of California can claim immunity from patent suits.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Roy Mark	RIM Gets More Time in Patent Dispute Blackberry maker Research in Motion scored a year-ending victory in its long- running patent dispute with NTP Friday.
InternetNews October 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Patent Suit Against RIM Moves On Wireless e-mail provider Research in Motion won't get a break from NTP's patent infringement suit.
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Court Rules RIM Infringed A federal appeals court ruled today that a district court properly determined that Research in Motion infringed on the patents on NTP, but still sent the case back to the district court for further review of damages.
InternetNews May 3, 2010	Novell, Red Hat Win Victory in Patent Fight Rival open source vendors prevail in joint defense against infringement charges brought by firm trying to assert rights to invention covered under 1991 patent.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Jim Wagner	For Innovation's Sake Although today's raft of companies suing other companies over intellectual property rights may give the impression that creative thought is getting muzzled, many industry experts agree that software innovation is alive and well.
InternetNews March 17, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Ebay Hit on Patent Infringement An appeals court throws out one MercExchange patent, upholds rest of lower court ruling.
Chemistry World August 2, 2012	Monsanto wins $1bn in patent case A US court has awarded $1 billion in damages to Monsanto following a patent dispute with DuPont over crops bred to be resistant to the popular pesticide glyphosphate.
InternetNews March 3, 2006	RIM Settles in BlackBerry Patent Case Research in Motion will pay NTP $612.5 million to settle all claims in its long-running patent infringement dispute with Virginia patent holding firm NTP.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Anders Bylund	Playboy, Citigroup, and Google's Patent Problem Eolas is about to recast how we should think about software patents -- without really trying.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Mr. Smith Went to Washington For Patent Reform Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith calls for patent reform at the American Enterprise Institute.
InternetNews April 19, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Cleans Up Another Suit The Redmond, Wash.-based giant settles with Minnesota consumers after its dirty linen is hung out in public.
Information Today September 6, 2012 Paula J. Hane	Apple-Samsung Case Highlights America's Troubled Patent System The jury finding in this case has triggered an onslaught of commentary and has also brought up many questions about the nature of the U.S. patent system. The comments have ranged from "software patents are evil" to the U.S. has a "broken patent system."
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
InternetNews May 3, 2007 Roy Mark	Court Rejects Vonage New Trial Bid A federal appeals court late Wednesday rejected Vonage's motion for a new trial in its bitter patent infringement feud with Verizon.