Microsoft gets OK to stake claim for interactivity patent
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft can argue that it should be the owner of a patent that was the subject of a $521 million jury trial it lost, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled.
Microsoft is challenging the University of California and researcher Michael Doyle's claim that they invented software technology used for the interactive components of Web pages. The patent office said Friday that it will decide whether Microsoft or Doyle were the first to invent the feature and thus entitled to the patent.