Monthly Archives: August 2007

Has Blackboard Filed Another Patent Suit?

By Michael Feldstein | August 7, 2007

It certainly looks that way. As usual, immagic has what little court documentation is publicly available. The defendant, by the way, appears to be the company that owns Turnitin.
We know very, very little at this point. Stay tuned.

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Lessons from Blackboard?

By Michael Feldstein | August 5, 2007

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
Blackboard’s Second Quarter financial reports and conference call (edited mp3 audio) may say more about eLearning in higher education than it did about Blackboard. And they say a lot about [...]

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First 35 Claims of Blackboard’s Patent Ruled Invalid

By Michael Feldstein | August 4, 2007

According to D2L’s patent blog, the judge in the patent case just ruled the first 35 of the 44 claims in Blackboard’s current patent invalid:
The more significant, immediate result is that the Court found the “Means for assigning a level of access to and control of each data file based on a user of the [...]

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