[geeks] Hyperlink patent lawsuit thrown out

[Ross Alexander]

>From CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/24/hyperlink.patent.ap/index.html

Judge throws out hyperlink lawsuit

August 24, 2002 Posted: 1:24 AM EDT (0524 GMT)

WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit
that could have made the World Wide Web a pay-as-you-click toll road.

U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon rejected BT Group's claim that it
owns the patent on hyperlinks -- those single-click conveniences that
make the Web what it is. 

Sanity prevails...


-- 
Ross Alexander
ross at two-cats.net