The U.S. patent office has approved the ICQ inventors’ patent on their technology for instant messaging via the Internet. America Online, which bought ICQ with its owner Mirabilis in 1998 for $400 million, can now file patent infringement suits against Yahoo! and Microsoft which develop and market similar software for the transmission of instant messages, or, alternatively, can demand the companies pay royalties. Will they? [Source: Ha'aretz and CNet.com]
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