Editing List of software patents (section)

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| '''{{Cite patent|country=US|number=5838906}}''' <small> (''Main article: - '') </small>
| [[Eolas]] successfully sued [[Microsoft]] for $521 million for the "browser plugin patent".<ref>[http://www.eolas.com/zmapress.htm Press release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205050434/http://eolas.com/zmapress.htm |date=2006-12-05 }} from Eolas</ref>
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| <small> 1994-10-17 <br /> {{En dash}}</small> <small>1998-11-17 </small>
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| '''{{Cite patent|country=US|number=4873662}}''' <small> (''Main article: - '') </small>
| [[British Telecom]] believed that this patent might cover web hyperlinks and tried enforcing it against Prodigy as a test case in ''[[British Telecommunications plc v. Prodigy]]''. After costly litigation, a court found for Prodigy, ruling that British Telecom's patent did not actually cover web hyperlinks.<ref>[http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/02-07733.PDF Summary Judgement] ruling that no jury could find that Prodigy infringes the Sargent patent, whether directly or contributorily, either as part of the Internet or on its Web server viewed separate and apart from the Internet.</ref>
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| <small> 1976-07-20 <br /> {{En dash}}</small> <small>1989-10-10 </small>
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| '''{{Cite patent|country=US|number=6192407}}''' <small>(''Main article: - '') </small>
| This patent is one of several owned [[Tumbleweed Communications]] and relates to a document delivery system that generates a unique [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] for intended recipients of a document in order to deliver that document. Tumbleweed has licensed this and related patents in their [[patent portfolio]] to 29 companies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.axway.com/en/products/managed-file-transfer/securetransport|title=MFT Gateway|website=Axway Corporate}}</ref> They have also filed several [[patent infringement]] [[lawsuits]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/telecommunications/263360-1.html|title="Tumbleweed brings patent infringement case against Yahoo!" Internet Business News, Sept 13 2002}}</ref> All of the suits have been [[settlement (law)|settled]] but full details of the settlements, including, in some cases, whether or not any license fees have been paid, have not been made available. Overall, however, Tumbleweed earns about 10% of its revenue from patent licensing and 90% of its revenue from selling products and services.
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| <small> 1996-10-24 <br /> {{En dash}}</small> <small>2001-02-20 </small>
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