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To: michael_pdx who wrote (7358)	6/21/2000 9:01:00 PM
From: M. Charles Swope	Respond to of 12823

Mike, I agree that British Telecommunications is going to have a tough time enforcing their hyperlink patent. The Amazon/Barnes and Noble "one-click" case, though, shows how silly some patent decisions can be and probably is encouraging lots of people to roll the dice with questionable patents. You can read about the hyperlink patent at: infoseek.go.com Charlie

To: michael_pdx who wrote (7358)	6/22/2000 11:04:00 AM
From: Gaffa	Respond to of 12823

A few years ago compuserve tried to enforce their patent on the gif format and was ridiculed by people as crazy. These patent fights are never just a fight about the patents themselves. What'll happen is the big boys who collect these IP baseball cards over the years will end up swapping a few of them and all will be happy. BT has been absent from the scene in recent months since their take-over battle with wcom over MCI(or maybe it's just I haven't paid enough attention to them). To try to get back in the plays with this hyperlink patent is kind of lame. Although the whole world uses http URLs I doubt BT can get much value out of this.