Mozilla Corp’s Firefox topped Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer in Europe for the first time last month to become the region’s most-used Web browser, according to StatCounter, a market research firm.
Last month, Firefox’s share of the European market was 38.1 percent, with Internet Explorer at 37.5 percent and Google Inc’s Chrome at 14.6 percent, according to StatCounter, which is based in Dublin and Boston.
It’s the first time Internet Explorer has been “dethroned from the number-one spot in a major territory,” Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter’s chief executive, said in a statement. “This appears to be happening because Google’s Chrome is stealing share from Internet Explorer.”
Firefox is maintaining its existing share, he said.
Internet Explorer still leads in North America, with a 48.9 percent market share, against Firefox’s 26.7 percent and Chrome’s 12.8 percent, StatCounter said, adding that it samples more than 15 billion page views on 3 million Web sites.
Meanwhile, a US appeals court restored a verdict that found Microsoft infringed on a patent for an anti-piracy technology owned by security software maker and competitor, Uniloc USA. However, the court did not reaffirm a US$388 million jury award.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overruled the decision of a lower court judge who threw out a jury’s guilty verdict against Microsoft in September last year.
At the same time, it found that the method the jury used to calculate Uniloc’s damages, known as the “25 percent rule,” was “fundamentally flawed.”
Jury’s often estimate a plaintiff’s losses as being 25 percent of the expected profits of the product containing the patented technology.
However, in its 59-page opinion, the appeals court ruled that was insufficient to establish a reasonable royalty for the technology’s use.
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