Re: Who owns the patent for HTML, if there is one?

Toby A Inkster wrote:
Grant Robertson wrote:

Was that ever patented?

No, why would it have been? The whole point of the Web is that it should
be free and open. Patenting HTML would be contrary to the spirit of it.

I seem to recall, but it is very hazy, that British Telecom tried at one point to patent the hyperlink. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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