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Re: BT asserting patent on weblinks

Author:Lawrence Lee
Posted:6/20/2000; 11:19:51 AM
Topic:BT asserting patent on weblinks
Msg #:17964 (In response to 17951)
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A syndicated Bloomberg article over at News.com mentions the patent has already expired (in 1998) everywhere in the world, except in the US (which will expire in 2006).

<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2115385.html>

Here's some background on Prestel/Viewdata which was the basis of the patent:

Prestel and its successors - notes from a Old Campaigner

"For reasons I have never really understood myself, but may be to do with nostalgia and irrational sentimentality, I keep a diary. My diary for November 2nd 1986, exactly a decade ago, tells me that this was the day I opened my first PRESTEL account."

<http://www.partnerships.org.uk/articles/saphhire.html>

Another look at videotext systems:

Can't-miss technology missed

<http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/spike/sy-ho/index.html>

A look at Prestel with two screenshots of the UI:

<http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/professional/new_media/History/Prestel.htm>

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