IP: BT in Fight to Establish Web Surfing Patent

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
>
> BT in Fight to Establish Web Surfing Patent
> By Bernhard Warner and Eric Auchard
>
> LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imagine if one company held the right to collect
> a fee each time an Internet user clicked on a Web site link and jumped to
> another Web page.
>
> It may sound far-fetched, but a U.S. federal court will hear preliminary
> arguments next week to determine if this most elemental of Internet
> activities is the business property of a lone company, protected in the form
> of a patent.
>
> BT Group Plc believes it holds such a patent covering ''hypertext links'' --
> the illuminated text on a Web page that enables users to surf from page to
> page with the click of a mouse. On Monday, BT will go to court to try to
> cash in on it.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020207/wr/tech_bt_patent_dc_1.html
>
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