Colspan HTML attribute copyrights

Can British Telecom own the patent (4,873,662) on hyperlinks? Can HTML code be copyrighed?

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<table class=”contentpaneopen”> <table cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”l” border=”0″ width=”100%” class=”contentpaneopen”>
<tr> <tr>
<td width=”70%” align=”left” valign=”top” colspan=”2″>
<span class=”small”>
<td width=”70%” align=”left” valign=”top” class=”small”>
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