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InternetNews December 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	IE Changes To Avoid Eolas IP Microsoft changed the way its browser handles ActiveX controls in response to the ongoing Eolas patent infringement suit.
InternetNews June 9, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Fights For Browser Plug-Ins Redmond appeals the patent infringement ruling that barred the use of plug-ins and applets in IE.
InternetNews January 15, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Microsoft To Appeal Latest Browser Ruling The controversial patent spat has taken a new turn with a judge ordering Microsoft to pay $521M in damages, but waiting for an appeal.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Wins One in IE Battle The U.S. Patent Trademark Office's preliminary ruling favors Internet Explorer in the Microsoft/Eolas infringement case.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	IP Upstarts: Get Microsoft Software vendors are both the victims and victimizers when it comes to patenting technology already in widespread use around the world.
InternetNews August 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Settles Eolas Suit The long-running legal battle between Microsoft and Eolas Technologies, which Microsoft was losing, has been settled. The two firms agreed to an undisclosed settlement that resolves the case.
InternetNews November 9, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft to Roll Back the Clock on ActiveX Through its settlement with Eolas, Microsoft can remove a lingering year-old change in Internet Explorer's ActiveX behavior.
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Eolas Patent Survives Re-Exam The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office seems inclined to let an early patent covering browser applets stand, despite opposition from Microsoft and a band of Internet gurus.
InternetNews June 1, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	MS Wins Right to Challenge Patent's Ownership Eolas Technologies may not be due $521 million after all in IE patent dispute.
InternetNews December 9, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Appeal Browser Plug-in Ruling Redmond still fighting a patent infringement ruling about its ActiveX technology.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Back to Court for Eolas and Microsoft A federal appeals court sends the patent infringement case back down for another trial.
InternetNews March 1, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Security, Patent Tweaks For Internet Explorer Microsoft this week has updated how Internet Explorer 6.0 handles ActiveX controls, bringing it into alignment with IE 7.0 and the Eolas patent-infringement suit. The update affects Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
InternetNews March 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Battles Gold Master Ruling In Eolas patent infringement suit, Microsoft asks judges to decide whether software code is an idea or a thing.
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InternetNews August 2, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Will Microsoft Settle With Eolas? Settlement talks preempt the start of a retrial in a long-running Microsoft patent infringement case - one the software giant lost last time.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Another Eolas Re-Exam Request One of Microsoft's lead intellectual property law firms has asked the United States Patent & Trademark Office to open a new reexamination of the Eolas patent.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2004 Seth Jayson	Microsoft Wins a Round The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revokes Eolas Technologies' patent on browser plug-ins.
InternetNews April 4, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft to Offer 2-Month ActiveX Reprieve Next week's batch of Microsoft patches will do more than update security for Internet Explorer. Patch Tuesday will include a 60-day reprieve for developers still adapting to a February upgrade of Internet Explorer 6.
InternetNews February 2, 2004 Zachary Rodgers	Rich Media Ad Players Irked, Despite Reprieve Microsoft holds off on releasing the new versions of IE and Windows that would pose problems for rich media. So why are publishers and ad serving firms peeved?
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft's Patent Tab: $388M Ought to Do It Jury finds that Microsoft infringed a California company's activation software patent to the tune of nearly $400 million.
InternetNews October 6, 2009	Eolas Sues Almost Everybody Over Browser Apps After Eolas' patent was extended, the tiny firm is taking it to the courts.
InternetNews June 2, 2004 Ryan Naraine	XP SP2: Do's & Don'ts for Web Sites To help customers prepare for its Windows XP security overhaul, Microsoft advocates programming changes for users of several applications.
InternetNews March 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft and AT&T Settle Up AT&T is the latest company to get Microsoft to settle a patent infringement lawsuit, closing yet another chapter of the Redmond, Wash.-based software vendor's legal woes.
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InternetNews June 30, 2004 Jim Wagner	Mozilla, Opera Unite to Standardize Web Can't plug in? Work begins on an API to handle multimedia plug-ins across all browser platforms.
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InternetNews October 31, 2005	High Court Rejects Microsoft Browser Appeal The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft in the long-running patent dispute over browser plug-ins brought by Eolas Technologies.
InternetNews April 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft to Cover IE Exploit A fix for a widely exploited flaw in Internet Explorer is among five security patches Microsoft told users to expect next week.
InternetNews July 7, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Another IE Flaw in the Wild? Recently 'patched' hole in Microsoft's browser still springing leaks.
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InternetNews September 10, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Wins 'Tabbed Browsing' Patent Redmond stakes a claim to tabbing between links on a Web page.
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Internet Explorer at Zero-Day Risk A security research firm is warning that all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are at risk from a vulnerability that could trigger a denial of service attack on end-users.
InternetNews August 6, 2004 Ryan Naraine	What Users Want in IE Upgrade There's a hive of activity at Redmond around Internet Explorer. If version 7.0 is on tap, what improvements can we expect?
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InternetNews September 29, 2009	Judge Overturns Uniloc Verdict and $388M Fine Microsoft could win the equivalent of a damages trifecta across several cases if its luck keeps up.
InternetNews August 12, 2009	Microsoft Blocked From Selling Word, Fined $290M A U.S. court yesterday slapped Microsoft with a $290 million fine and ordered it to cease selling versions of Microsoft Office Word, marking the latest fallout from a patent dispute with a smaller firm.
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InternetNews January 3, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Google, Apple, Napster Services in Danger? Former video-on-demand movie download service Intertainer has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Google, Apple and Napster asking a Texas district court to block the trio from offering video downloads.
InternetNews February 11, 2004 Michael Singer	Patriot Takes a Legal Stick to Intel Patriot Scientific adds the chipmaking Goliath to its patent squabble with five PC vendors.
InternetNews April 25, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	RealNetworks Looks To Squash 'Trolls' RealNetworks secured a patent to protect some of its earliest streaming technologies.
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	PalmOne Graffiti Is No Infringement A U.S. Court invalidates Xerox Corp.'s patent on single-stroke writing.
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Few Browsers Safe From Latest Spoofing Flaw Newly reported flaw with JavaScript dialog boxes could lead to phishing attacks against almost all major browsers.
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