#vaeo Tim Berners-Lee In Court To Try To Prevent Patent Troll Eolas From Patenting Key Web Concepts | Techdirt

Via Scoop.it – INTERNET in DANGER

Remember Eolas? We’ve written about this infamous patent troll many times, mostly focusing on its big patent fight with Microsoft over the idea of browser plugins — a case it eventually settled. In 2009, however, Eolas came back and basically sued the web, claiming that all sorts of very basic web technologies were, in fact, infringing on a brand new, ridiculously broad patent (built on the earlier patent), 7,599,985.
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