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British Telecom's Hyperlink Claims To Reach U.S. Court

Posted by timothy on from the wish-it-was-unisys-on-the-other-end dept.

downundarob writes: "Last year, BT said it had discovered that it holds U.S. patent 4,873,662 for the invention of hyperlink technology used on the Internet, and on Dec. 13, 2000, the London-based telecommunication company filed suit in federal court in White Plains, New York. A court date was set Monday in the lawsuit brought by British Telecommunications PLC (BT) against U.S.-based Prodigy Communications Corp. for patent infringement through the ISP's (Internet service provider) unauthorized use of the hyperlink. The full story is here."

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  1. BT are just testing the patent by Swamp · · Score: 0, Troll

    I read somewhere that BT just wants to test the validity of the patent. They were hinting that it was just a test case they were pursuing for it's own end and no more.

    That said, anyone who knows BT knows they would charge customers for the air they breath if they could. For instance, BT still control the local telephone loop through which all of the UK has dial up, and they charge metered local calls for this.

  2. Bomb the tower by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm gonna bomb the BT Tower on monday, anyone with me? meet there about lunch time on the south side. I was thinking maybe crashing a small plane or helicopter into it, (you could do something that would need an air ambulance (big car crash), then get in the helicopter, and strangle the unsuspecting paramedics and then take control. the towers not very wide so the structure would probably fail easily, and you know how those 60's buildings are built to *withstand* such impacts (cough, wtc).

    Anyway, that should take them out.. seeing as they are responsible for my crappy slow internet access, i think its poetic justice, don't you?

    oh, shit, i forgot, i should have sent this anon instead of putting my user name on it.... :(

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  3. Mod me up! by mmol_6453 · · Score: 0, Troll

    At the time of writing, 44 out of 92 visible messages were modded +2 or higher. That's nearly half, which is an extraordinary percentage.

    Just a freak combination of people who decided they didn't want to mod and people who decided they wanted to say something, I suppose.

    Maybe this message will be modded +5 Funny (hint hint ;)

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