{"id":10551,"date":"2013-07-23T12:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:53:37","slug":"eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10551","title":{"rendered":"Eolas patents are dead on appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Berners-Lee was one of several web pioneers who came through the court during the course of a four-day trial, which ultimately convinced a jury to invalidate two patents owned by Eolas, the tiny patent-holding company that Doyle and his lawyers transformed into one of the most fearsome &#8220;patent trolls&#8221; of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Now Eolas appears to be gone for good. The company mounted a lengthy appeal, but it was all for naught; this morning, a three-judge appeals panel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/12-1632.Rule_36_Judgment.7-18-2013.1.PDF\">affirmed<\/a> the jury&#8217;s verdict without comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/07\/the-webs-longest-nightmare-ends-eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal\/\">The Web\u2019s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berners-Lee was one of several web pioneers who came through the court during the course of a four-day trial, which ultimately convinced a jury to invalidate two patents owned by Eolas, the tiny patent-holding company that Doyle and his lawyers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10551\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1096,875,301],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-fight-back","tag-litigation","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}