SBC claims millions over site-nav patent

Jill noticed This ZDNet UK story on SBC Communications going after museumtour.com for \”selectors or tabs that… seem to reside in their own frame or part of the user interface\”

Here\’s The Patent and The Letter.

\”What they are patenting is the entire process of structuring documents for the Web, something that has been done since the advent of the Web in the early nineties,\” said Web application developer DJ Walker-Morgan. \”They must know that they have a vague and challengeable patent; what other reason would they go after small companies like museumtours, and not after Amazon, AOL or Microsoft.\”