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    There is such an essential thing for the Internet, in our understanding, as a mouse click in a browser to launch a certain application. So, this action is patented. An out-of-court Microsoft paid $ 500 million in 2004 to violate this patent.

    The holder of the patent number 5838906 is a certain company EOLAS , which registered this idea as a patent back in 1994, and in 1998 received the registration of a patent. This patent was checked several times for relevance, but each time it received confirmation, despite the fact that Tim Berners-Lee mentioned the delusional nature of the registration of this patent.

    It occurred to the patent holder just recently that 500 lemons would not be enough, and he filed a lawsuit because of patent infringement or non-payment of license fee for 24 companies, including Google, Yandex, Adobe, Go-Daddy, Apple, Ibei, pepsi etc.

    you can continue to complain about life, they say, hucksters and so on. but the basic idea is that the software patenting system has outlived itself, as it leads to the fact that the forces developing the network become incapable. for example, many firms have established an allied security trust and are organizing common patent pools to ensure that such patent holders do not troll people.

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