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Web development companies - and especially Prodigy - are breathing a little easier today after a British judge narrowed british telecom's claim of a patent on the hyperlink. Additionally, "several legal experts said that BT's failure to assert its patent in the 13 years since the claim was officially granted means that it would likely forego any back payments even if it won the case. Under U.S. patent law revised in the 1990s, BT's patent stands to expire in 2006."

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