Many of you have written to me to tell me that the nonsensical British Telecom patent on hyperlinking has been overturned. Dan Gillmor nails what it means, though:
The fact that a judge did the right thing here is not evidence of a working system. It's evidence that things are getting worse in the patent arena.
Prodigy, defending itself, must have spent a million dollars by now. What British Telecom did is happening again and again in and out of courts all across America. How many lawyers are being hired instead of engineers these days?
