You can find the documentation here. The USPTO found 13 of Desire2Learn’s 14 claims to raise substantial new questions of patentability. However, the government did not a preliminary finding, as is usual with an Inter Partes challenge, because they are considering whether this challenge should be merged with the Ex Parte challenge filed by the […]
Archive for February, 2007
Blackboard Inter Partes Determination Published
Published by February 27th, 2007 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentThomson Learning Makes a Statement on EduPatents?
Published by February 26th, 2007 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentHere is a press release by Thomson Learning about their decision to become a Sakai commercial affiliate. It has all the usual statements about working with the community, supporting open standards, and so on. But what caught my attention, down in the sixth paragraph of a six-paragraph press release, was the following statement by Thomson Learning’s Chief […]
Blackboard Announces New ‘Institutional Effectiveness Platform’; Patents Pending
Published by February 26th, 2007 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentFrom today’s press release:
BbWorld Europe, Nice, France – February 26, 2007 – Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a leading provider of enterprise technology to the education industry, today unveiled, at the Annual BbWorld Europe 2007 Users Conference in Nice, its latest and most significant product offering, the Blackboard Outcomes System™ in front of 400 European and […]
USPTO Orders Blackboard Patent Re-examined–Again
Published by February 25th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsWe interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post to bring you this breaking news:
Based on Desire2Learn’s Inter Partes request, the USPTO has ordered that the Blackboard patent be re-examined. This is a separate ruling from the one in response to the Ex Parte Sakai/ATutor/Moodle filing. As I have previously noted, the law requires that the USPTO […]
Visualizations of Online Social Archives, Part I
Published by February 24th, 2007 in Instructional Design and Usability and Human Factors. 0 CommentsIt’s not often that you find a graduate thesis that is actually fun to read, but that’s exactly what I found in Revealing individual and collective pasts: Visualization of online social archives by Fernanda Bertini Viegas, an alumna of MIT’s Media Lab. The bibliography alone is worth the trip; she does an amazing job of […]
