A patent-trolling firm called Eolas, working together with the University of California, took a notorious patent to trial in East Texas earlier this year, trying to win close to $1 billion from Internet companies including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and others. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, actually flew down to East Texas to testify for the defense, which ultimately beat Eolas . Now Eolas has taken a final, post-trial longshot, but missed its target again. Judge Leonard Davis, who oversaw the case, issued an order (PDF) today that puts a final stop on attempts by Eolas and its owner, Michael Doyle, to claim it owns technology that’s critical to running any “interactive” site on the web. That means Eolas can’t use its 5,838,906 patent , or a successor patent, No. 7,599,985 , to sue anyone, unless it manages to overturn this verdict on appeal. Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Patent troll takes last shot at owning "interactive web," but falls short