[WEB4LIB] British Telecom asserting 1989 patent claiming HTML?

[Michael Sauers]

> method of
> sending out information in two blocks - the first block has the text of
> the current page, and the second block has display formatting information
> for the text in the first block plus links to other pages of text and
> formatting information.
>     As I implied in 1997, with a little legal gymnastics, these claims can
> be interpreted to read on HTML coding and HTML links,

But HTML is a single file that includes the links. Not one file with the
text and one with the formatting and links. Or am I not reading this
properly?

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