Sit Down and Be Quiet!

British Telecom (BT) has just lost a lawsuit it filed agains Prodigy in which BT claims HTML links violate a patent it holds. From the judgment by U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, in White Plains, New York:

BT is correct that there is no requirement that its expert analyze every available web page that it claims as a block of information. However, [...] BT must identify at least one web page other than one it invented for the purposes of this lawsuit. It has not done so. Other than BT's general assertion that blocks of information as defined in [their] patent exist on the Internet, BT has not presented any other evidence of an infringing Web page, one Prodigy's system or anywhere else on the Internet.

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