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BT Pushing Hyperlink Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

There's been a lot of new publicity lately about the British Telecom trying to defend a patent that they claim means they invented hyperlinking. Currently they are going after Prodigy for using hyperlinking back in the early eighties. We've mentioned this one before, but it really looks like they are going to push it. Insane.

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  1. my patent... by acherrington · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder if there would be any way that I could patent my invention of scrubbing Carbon Dioxide out of the human body through resperation, replacing it with oxygen?

    God never patented it, so I should have rights to it instead...

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    Victory is gained, not in knowing your opponents next move, but in preempting them.
  2. US should block all BT IP traffic by tyrannical666 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That should teach them a lesson.