Overcoming obviousness when patenting nanotechnology inventions

case Report —: BT HYPERLINK PATENT DISPU

case Report —: BT HYPERLINK PATENT DISPUTE — DID BT INVENT THE HYPERLINK? OBVIOUSLY NOT AS THE US COURTS HAVE SAID SO

✍ Heather Rowe 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 73 KB

British Telecom (BT) filed what must be one of the more unlikely patent infringement actions to have come before the courts recently. As a result of a routine review of its global patent portfolio, BT made the somewhat serendipitous discovery that it owns an old US patent which, according to BT, cov