BT claims a patent on hyperlinks
Jun 22, 2000 — by Rick Lehrbaum — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsRichard Barry, of ZDNet (UK), reports that British Telecom has begun to assert that it owns a 14-year-old patent on one of the keys to the Internet — hyperlinks. And, if upheld, it could start to ask for payments. Barry writes . . .
“British Telecom believes it owns a 14-year-old U.S. patent for the World Wide Web's hyperlink technology and has hired an intellectual property specialist to ensure it can commercialize the patent, in court if necessary.”
“Buried amongst 15,000 global patents, BT claims it discovered its lapse during a routine update of its intellectual property . . .”
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