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An Eye-Witness Account of the Trial

With all the coverage of the Blackboard v. Desire2Learn case, most of us (including me) have very little insight into the actual trial process. And with emotions running high about the case, it’s easy for people to jump to extreme conclusions about the process and everyone involved in it. That’s why I’ve asked Jim Farmer […]

The Instructions to the Jury

As I indicated in previous posts, the jury questionnaire should be made public by the end of the day today. It will take us some time to sort through it once it’s out, so expect updates over the next couple of days. In the meantime, D2L has posted the judge’s instructions to the jury. Written […]

D2L’s Letter to their Customers

From their patent blog:
Dear Client,
I am writing to update you on the current status of the Blackboard v. Desire2Learn Patent Infringement lawsuit. Earlier today the jury handed down its verdict that the patent is valid and that Blackboard should be awarded damages of approximately $3 million.
As you know, Blackboard filed a patent infringement suit against […]

Updates on Blackboard v Desire2Learn

A number of folks have contacted me asking for up-to-the-minute updates on the trial. To begin with, I am tagging all relevant articles so that they appear in the EduPatents feed. I probably won’t blog about most of these directly unless I feel I have something substantially new to say about them, so my advice […]

My New Blog About Politics

Lately I’ve been feeling the need to speak out more on political issues that are important to me. I won’t do that on e-Literate because I’ve always cultivated this as a professional space about my chosen profession and I don’t want to break my covenant with my readers. I have thought about starting a second, […]





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