Apple patent owner under siege      

Posted: 12 October 2009 by Anton Chuiko   |   Views: 376   |   Comments 0   |   Print     |   Discuss in forum
altApple with 22-ohm other companies found themselves under siege firm Eolas. It brought a lawsuit against these companies under the ownership of patents on integrated with browsers, interactive Web applications. In the previous trial, also on patents, the company Eolas won a 565 million U.S. dollars from the group Microsoft. According to a recent claim Apple and other companies the defendants allegedly infringe U.S. patents Patent No.. 5,838,906 and 7,599,985, which relate to the integrated Web application. Petition was submitted to the district court in Texas on Tuesday.

The lawsuit claims the company Eolas that Apple's official site includes an interactive Web, and that applications QuickTime, and Safari (both Mac and Windows) allows the viewing of such components. Petition further states that Apple's hardware, allowing to run these applications, also violates the patent law.

The first patents have been issued in 1998, and the second this month. Both relate to a fully interactive, integrated with browsers, Web application. Patents also relate to these applications, you may access through browser plug-ins and AJAX.

A long list of defendants includes the company Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Argosy Publishing, Blockbuster, CDW Corporation, Citigroup, Ebay, Frito-Lay, GoDaddy, Google, JC Penney, JP Morgan Chase & Co.., New Frontier Media, Office Depot, Perot Systems Corp.., Playboy, Rent-A-Center, Staples, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yahoo and YouTube.

 
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