Nearly as ridiculous is a current court case in which British Telecom claims to own a patent on the use of hyperlinks, such as those used on millions of web pages worldwide. So far (much to the relief of the rest of the world) the legal system has not upheld their claim. Unfortunately, there have been other cases where patents or other proprietary rights have been granted on computers or computer applications that are trivially obvious and/or already in widespread use.
Nearly as ridiculous is a current court case in which British Telecom claims to own a patent on the use of hyperlinks, such as those used on millions of web pages worldwide. So far (much to the relief of the rest of the world) the legal system has not upheld their claim. Unfortunately, there have been other cases where patents or other proprietary rights have been granted on computers or computer applications that are trivially obvious and/or already in widespread use.