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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.
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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.
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CIO August 1, 2003 Lawrence Rosen	Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property.
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
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 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.
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InternetNews January 28, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft: King of The Patent Hill Microsoft emerges as top tech patent holder with more than 15,000 patents pending.
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT.
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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.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Jim Wagner	For Innovation's Sake Although today's raft of companies suing other companies over intellectual property rights may give the impression that creative thought is getting muzzled, many industry experts agree that software innovation is alive and well.
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Ballmer: Red Hat Has 'Obligation' to Pay Up Just when the clash between Linux supporters and Microsoft seemed to have subsided, CEO Steve Ballmer ratchets it up a notch.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens	New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Banks Need Patents, Experts Say In light of recent patent litigation, banks must understand the importance of protecting their innovations.
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S.
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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.
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike	Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.
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Salon.com March 21, 2001 Damien Cave	Patents are your friends Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers? Publishing work on IP.com ensures the patent office will see it and not issue patent for the idea to someone else.