Tag Archives: Blackboard-Inc.

An Update on Blackboard Calling Desire2Learn Customers

By Michael Feldstein | May 30, 2008

A while ago, I noted D2L’s claim that Blackboard General Counsel Matt Small (whose title either is going to be changed or has already been changed to “Chief Business Officer”) was calling D2L customers and encouraging them to switch over. I requested that readers contact me with any information that they have. I got a [...]

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I Want More

By Michael Feldstein |

The EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents today was very good. (The archived event is available.) James Hilton, University of Virginia’s CIO, did a great job of laying out the fundamental conflict between the academic endeavor and the United States’ obsession with ideas as property–an idea that has infused academia through technology transfer departments among many other [...]

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Blackboard’s Response to the USPTO Office Action

By Michael Feldstein | May 28, 2008

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Blackboard has responded to the non-final invalidation of their patent by the USPTO. I’ve only had time to scan it quickly, but here are my preliminary observations.
First, Blackboard has added a bunch of new dependent claims, bringing the total up to 57. (There’s a Steve Martin joke in [...]

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What I Want from the EDUCAUSE Seminar on Edupatents

By Michael Feldstein |

Seb has a good post up raising some questions for the free EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents tomorrow at 1 PM Eastern time. I’ll add a few of my own (which in some ways are just extensions of Seb’s):

What are the various edupatents being litigated in the United States today and what is the potential impact [...]

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Didn’t See This One Coming

By Michael Feldstein | May 22, 2008

The business processes of Blackboard as interpreted through Bollywood movies.
And if that doesn’t get you curious enough to click on a hyperlink, then you’re a lost cause.

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