From the Dark Side--Eolas' Patent May Be Cancelled Saving M$ and the Internet

according to this BizReport article. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may cancel the super-vague patent which M$ was convicted of infringing on. The WWW Consortium has also claimed that the patent is based significantly on technology already existing when the patent was applied for. This is good news because virtually all web browsers and those web sites displaying multimedia content (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) could infringe on the patent, not just Internet Explorer. [Dana Baggett]