Update: The dates of the conference are actually June 19-20. Sorry about that.
(Patrick will never let me live this down.)
My friend Patrick Masson has put together a two-day conference at Delhi, NY on May 23-24 that looks terrific. The first day, which is about open source in higher education in general, has tracks on quality, […]
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Great Open Source Conference in Upstate New York
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 2 CommentsWhat the Sakai Announcement Means
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentBarry Dahl read the Sakai Foundation’s recent announcement about the Blackboard patent pretty closely and is concerned that it sounds like they think the fight is over. I completely understand why he interpreted it that way, but I read it a little differently. If you look closely at the specifics of the legal situation, the […]
Interview with an East Texas IP Lawyer on Blackboard v Desire2Learn
Published by April 4th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsA few of the usual suspects have pointed to this one already, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, Barry Dahl has a fantastic podcast interview up (about 30 minutes) with Michael C. Smith, an intellectual property lawyer in the district where the case was filed and author of EDTexweblog. Both interviewer and interviewee […]
Blackboard Fails Statistics 101
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentBlackboard has posted their response to the USPTO ruling. They make some claims about how this will impact the trial, which I’m not in a position to evaluate just yet. They mention that all of the claims in the re-examination request “were unsuccessfully raised by Desire2Learn during recent litigation,” which is irrelevant since these are […]
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated by USPTO
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 21 CommentsThis just in:
On March 25, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued its Non-Final Action on the re-examination of the Blackboard Patent. We are studying the document, found here, but in short, the PTO has rejected all 44 of Blackboard’s claims. We caution that this is a NON-final action; both Blackboard and Desire2Learn will have […]
