Pay per click - coming soon?
Linking Patent Goes to Court
Reuters
9:30 a.m. Feb. 7, 2002 PST
Imagine if one company held the right to collect a fee each time an Internet user clicked on a website link and jumped to another Web page.
It may sound far-fetched, but a U.S. federal court will hear preliminary arguments next week to determine if this most elemental of Internet activities is the business property of a lone company, protected in the form of a patent.
BT Group Plc believes it holds such a patent covering hypertext links and on Monday, BT will go to court to try to cash in on it.
This is pretty scary, but it looks like there might be enough prior art to make it a non-issue. Good.
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