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ref1 wrote:Microsoft ordered to pay $521 million
By Michael Kanellos and Jim Hu
CNET News.com
August 11, 2003, 5:29 PM PT
A federal court in Chicago has ruled that Microsoft must pay $521 million to a Web technology company and the University of California after finding that the software giant's Internet Explorer infringed one of their patents.
ref2 wrote:Eolas suit may spark HTML changes
By Paul Festa
CNET News.com
September 19, 2003, 3:53 PM PT
As anxiety builds throughout the Web over the patent threatening Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the Web's leading standards group is considering modifying the medium's lingua franca itself, HTML, to address the same threat.