Eolas, the company that won a patent case against Microsoft in 2003, has filed another patent infringement lawsuit, apparently targeting as many high-tech companies it could find. Citing infringement on the very same patent as the one that resulted in a $585 judgment against Microsoft, Eolas is now suing 23 companies, including Apple, Google, Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Playboy, Yahoo, and YouTube for implementing browser plug-ins in one form or another, plus another patent that addresses the use of asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).
If it wins the case, Ajax will no longer be a free technology to use in modern web.
I will be rich if I had patented the structured exception handling when I was young : ) - I don't think there will be a program nowadays not handle the error using structured exception handling (except tiny ones)
