Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo! targeted in patent case

WASHINGTON — A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit yesterday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent.

Adobe, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Google, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yahoo! and YouTube were among the 23 companies named in the lawsuit filed in a Texas court by Eolas Technologies, Inc.

In the latest suit, Eolas accused the 23 companies of violating the same patent as in the Microsoft case, its ’906 patent which enables Web browsers to act as platforms for fully interactive embedded applications.

They were also accused of violating Eolas’s ’985 patent. — AFP

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