Patent on searchword-based hyperlinking encumbers W3C XPointer standard

In Jan 2001 people at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) found that their new generation of hypertext markup language was infringing on a patent from Sun Microsystems. By a decree of the US patent office, Sun has become the owner of the idea of adding a search word to a link in such a way that the browser will scroll to that word.

http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/effects/xpointer/index.en.html