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Microsoft lose in such cases surprisingly often. Smart Tags in Office, onclick activation of plugins in IE...
by anonymfus 14y ago
Microsoft lose in such cases surprisingly often. Smart Tags in Office, onclick activation of plugins in IE...
- Dirlewanger 14y agoYup. Fuck, they lost their right to use "Metro" to describe their now "Modern-UI style." MASSIVE fuck up in my opinion. Microsoft should have raided the coffers to protect using that term.
- neurotech1 14y agoAgreed it was a massive SNAFU. Metro AG is a huge corp, based in Germany, that wasn't interested in licensing the 'Metro' trademark to MS in a settlement. I don't think any dollar amount was mentioned for continued use of Metro.
- thwarted 14y agoAnd wasn't click activation of plugins the change they had to make to avoid the Eolas patent on automatic execution of embedded content (going back to the 90s here)?
- neurotech1 14y agoThe Smart Tags lawsuit had some merit to it. They adopted the idea only after it was shown to them, and they refused to license it. The Eolas case was BS though. The patent was based on rewording the description of existing technology. If memory serves me correctly. Microsofts own OCX technology was prior art for the concept. Eolas claimed that by applying their concept to the web, it was novel and non-obvious.