According to a blog entry on Desire2Learn’s Patent blog, the US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Blackboard’s request to suspend the re-examination process. Bb and D2L have been fighting over the venue for the next round of the battle, with Blackboard asking the USPTO not to complete the re-examination process (despite having earlier said […]
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Blackboard, Inc., Loses Battle In EduPatent Venue Fight
Published by August 26th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsSocial Constructivists and eLearning
Published by August 7th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 2 CommentsThis is a guest post by Jim Farmer
On July 15th Luke Fernandez, Weber State University and frequent Sakai contributor, posted “Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community” on Academic Commons. Broadly interpreting his post about attending the San Francisco MoodleMoot US 2008, he identified two issues: (1) How does the […]
The Second Anniversary: Blackboard v. Desire2Learn
Published by July 29th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Guest Bloggers. 0 CommentsThis is a guest post by Jim Farmer
Two years ago while speaking at the Desire2Learn Users Conference, CEO John Baker learned that Blackboard Inc. accused Desire2Learn of infringing a Blackboard patent. Following a jury’s decision and failed attempts to reach a settlement, the dispute is now headed for appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
Desire2Learn Conference Summary
Published by July 27th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentI had fun at the D2L conference last week. As usual, I don’t have as much time as I would like to blog about the details, so this highlight post will have to do:
Conference attendance was good. There were about 550 attendees this year, up from about 400 last year.
I had chance to get a […]
Victory for D2L, Opportunity for Blackboard
Published by July 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 3 CommentsWell, my flight was delayed, so I missed the opportunity to witness D2L’s court victory celebration at Graceland. And I’m sure that they celebrated tonight The court denied Blackboard’s motion for contempt, meaning that Desire2Learn version 8.3 was found to be “more than colorably different” than the infringing version of the software and the court […]
