13 Facts About Eolas

Eolas is a United States technology firm formed as a spin-off from the University of California, San Francisco, in order to commercialize UCSF's patents for work done there by Eolas' co-founders, as part of the Visible Embryo Project.

Eolas was founded in 1994 by Dr Michael Doyle, Rachelle Tunik, David Martin, and Cheong Ang from the UCSF Center for Knowledge Management .

Eolas was created at the request of UCSF, and was founded by the inventors of the university's patents.

In September 1995, the founders of Eolas released WebRouser, an advanced Web browser based on Mosaic that implemented plugins, client-side image maps, web-page-defined browser buttons and menus, embedded streaming media, and cloud computing capabilities.

In 2012, Eolas developed the Einstein Brain Atlas iPad app for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago, which was named the Gizmodo App of the Day.

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Eolas was granted a second patent in October 2009 related to the same technology.

In 1999, Eolas filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Microsoft over validity and use of the patent.

Microsoft and Eolas agreed in July 2007 to delay a pending re-trial, in order to negotiate a settlement.

In October 2009, Eolas sued a number of large corporations for infringement of the same patent.

In February 2012, a Texas jury found that some of the claims in two of Eolas' patents were invalid after testimony from several defendants including Tim Berners-Lee and Pei-Yuan Wei, credited as creator of the Viola browser.

The testimony professed that the Viola browser included Eolas' claimed plugin invention before their conception date .

Eolas then filed a new lawsuit against Google, Amazon and Walmart, which is currently underway in the Northern District of California.

Doyle has stated that Eolas will offer royalty-free licenses to non-commercial entities.