September 4, 2007
U. of California and Microsoft Settle Long-Running Patent Dispute Over Lucrative Technology
An eight-year conflict between the University of California and the Microsoft Corporation over the patent rights to a lucrative Web-browser technology has been settled out of court. Neither side revealed the terms of their agreement.
The fight, in the courts and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, concerns who discovered the technology, which covers a method for launching and displaying software plug-ins from Web browsers. The university owns the patent to the technology, which
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