A Texas jury on Thursday sided against the University of California in a major fight over patents to interactive Web technology, Wired reports. The case revolved around Michael Doyle, a Chicago-based biologist who asserted that, while working at the university’s San Francisco campus in 1993, he invented the first program that enabled users to interact with pictures within a Web browser. Mr. Doyle’s patent-holding company, Eolas Technologies, and its partner, the University of California, claimed that their ideas underlie key Internet functions such as pop-up search suggestions, music clips, and maps.
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