Inventor

Michael D. Doyle

Patents indexed

Year range

1998

Associated with

University of California San Diego UCSD

Years active

1998

Total patents

Most recent

1998

Frequent collaborator

Cheong S. Ang

Domains

browsersantitrustoperating-systemsmicrosoftinternet

Activity by decade

1990s

Patents

US 5838906·1998·University of California San Diego UCSD

Microsoft's Browser Patent — At the Center of the Biggest Antitrust Case in Tech

Microsoft's 1998 browser patent covers the integration of Internet Explorer into Windows — the technical mechanism that was at the heart of the United States v. Microsoft antitrust case, the most consequential legal action against a technology company in history.