The world‘s longest running patent trolling sideshow has finally been shut down. Eolas, a company with no products on the market, claimed to have invented „interactivity on the Web,“ based solely on a program created by Michael Doyle back in 1993, as the director of the computer lab at UC San Francisco. This program allowed doctors to view embryos online and was patented in 1994.

At that point, innovation ceased and the lawsuits began.