BT loses hypertext claim -- "BT has lost its legal challenge to charge US ISPs a fee for using hyperlinks. US judge Colleen McMahon ruled late yesterday that ISPs did not infringe a patent filed by BT more than 25 years ago." (MadMan comments: Phew, thank goodness another braindead claim got squashed. Now if only somebody could bring the US Patents office out of the 18th century and teach them a thing or two about technology... We can but dream.)