British Telecom: we own hyperlinking

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From: v - Mark Kuharich (mkuharich@punchnetworks.com)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 15:26:15 PDT


Last week its lawyers sent out letters to the top Internet service providers
in the United States, alerting them they'd best begin discussions for
licensing the technology, referred to in BT's patent as "an information
handling system in which information is derived from a computer at a remote
point and transmitted via the public telephone network to terminal
apparatus." Translated from patent speak, BT explained, that means
"hyperlink"
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37095,00.html

Mark Kuharich

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