We’re a bit behind in getting Jim’s post up. (Or, to be more accurate, I’m a bit behind in getting Jim’s post up.) My new goal is to have up tonight. Also, we haven’t yet seen the jury’s documentation of their verdict, so that will wait a bit longer as well.
In the meantime, there is a meeting today between Blackboard and D2L to see if they can reach an agreement on the remedy given the court ruling. (If not, then each side will present their argument for to the judge and the judge will decide on things like whether there will be an injunction, whether there will be a royalty and how much it would be, etc.) If the two sides come to an agreement we’ll know within a couple of days; otherwise the court will rule on March 10th.
I don’t want to read to much into this, but it’s interesting that Blackboard has chosen Peter Segall (along with Matthew Small) to represent them in the talks. Peter is very well regarded as diplomat by a lot of folks (including me) and is not generally perceived to be an edupatent warrior.
Michael Feldstein is the founder of e-Literate who currently works as the Senior Program Manager for MindTap at Cengage Learning. For more information, see his profile page.
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