[ba-unrev-talk] SBC Wants Your Money: U.S. patent 5,933,841 (1999)Structured Document Browser

["John J. Deneen" <jjdeneen@netzero.net>]

       Does SBC have a patent
that will allow them to charge you for having a web page? Maybe, says Bob:
 
 How I,
Cringely Readers Can Overturn an Unpopular Patent
        
          
          By 
Robert X. Cringely         
          
                   This
 column is about U.S. patent 5,933,841, which was granted to the old Ameritech
 phone company in 1999, and is now owned by Ameritech's acquirer,SBC Communications. 
 It is a patent you will be hearing more about because nearly every modern
 web page appears to violate it, maybe even this one.  I HATE when that happens! 
 ... more
 <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030123.html>