A: Let?s agree ? like a jury did in Texas ? that it?s not Michael Doyle, a Chicago biologist who pressed into the courts a claim for his 1993 patent for an “interactive web.” Doyle lost his suit against Google, Playboy, Office Depot, Amazon and other companies in February. To be as straightforward as possible, according to Lawrence Landweber, a UW?Madison professor emeritus of computer science, one has to read back through academic publications.