Patent problems

Jakob Nielsen, usability expert While Jakob Nielsen was at Sun, he filed for a patent on connecting HTML documents.
Enter the lawyers Sun seems to feel that this patent covers some key parts of XPointer, notably ranges.
W3C? The W3C appears to have accepted a click-wrap license which lets people implement XPointer, but requires them to document revsions and changes. It isn't clear if this will stick...
DOA? A lot of developers are deeply unhappy with this, and Tim Bray suggested that XPointer may be dead on arrival because of this.