British Telecom Patent: Lachey, Uninfringed, and Invalid? Patents6/24/2000; 4:35:08 PM This article said everything I was trying to say about the British Telecom (BT) patent. It's nice to see lawyers backing up my understanding on this issue.

So after having to narrowly interpret these means-plus-function claims, is there anyone infringing in its entirety whatever is left to be claimed? And if there is anything left to be claimed after the claims analysis, is what is left novel and unobvious in light of prior art not disclosed to the PTO? In short, is what is left a valid patent? In particular, is the concept of blocks of texts with pointers to other blocks of texts and with formatting information for the texts, are these techniques novel and unobvious?Most likely, NO.

Move along, theres' nothing to see here.