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Microsoft Ordered to Pay $520 Million to Univ. of CA & Eolas
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Posted by: TotalRecall
CHICAGO - A federal jury awarded a Chicago-based software company, Eolas Technologies Inc., and the University of California more than $520 million in damages Monday after finding that Microsoft Corp.'s popular Internet Explorer browser infringed on a patent.
Microsoft attorney Andy Culbert said that the jury's finding would be appealed.
Eolas, which is the Gaelic word for knowledge, is an acronym for "embedded objects linked across systems." The company was launched in 1994 to market technology that allows users to access interactive programs embedded in Web pages. Eolas chairman Michael Doyle along with two others developed the technology while at the University of California at San Francisco. Eolas owns the exclusive rights to market the technology, while the university owns the patent.
Eolas and the university say Microsoft made their technology part of Internet Explorer and bundled it with Windows.
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