http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5106129.html
Following strong and concentrated protest, the USA's Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-examine the Eolas patent which effectively broke Web browsers (see previous entry) and was agreed to be both voided by prior art and a humongously bad social decision by anyone with technical competence. The article also indexes related stories on this issue.
I would expect the patent to be reversed on careful re-examination, so we may see here an uncommon victory for common sense -- and of course, another lesson in what happens when Microsoft's ox is gored.
Posted by jho at November 12, 2003 03:21 PM