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This is not the first lawsuit Akamai has won regarding its patents [1] [2]."... . In accordance with the invention, however, a base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.
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The worst kind of obvious (Score:1, Interesting)
Of course a company is going to maintain control of it's content by serving it directly and pointing to a CDN to deliver larger, static files. There is no way you can operate any website where the content needs to be dynamic and updated frequently (which is nearly all websites) and have it cached on a CDN. For many purposes in fact it's technically impossible for the page content to be cached by the CDN. One example is almost any kind of activity that has a per-user context, e.g. a