PATENT NONSENSE? BT’S ALREADY DONE IT

“What we expect is that ISPs will do the decent thing and take licenses for our intellectual property that they’re using. We’re looking for reasonable royalties on revenues that they’re enjoying from our technology.”

British Telecom flack Simon Craven, on the UK phone monopoly’s plans to garner a shekel for every click on the Web through a patent on hyperlinks, Wired News, 20 June 2000