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I Want More

By Michael Feldstein | May 30, 2008

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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Blackboard v. Desire2Learn: The First Final Judgment

By Jim Farmer | May 14, 2008

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer.
Delayed several days by a database failure at the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Friday, May 2nd, the Final Judgment and associated orders for Blackboard v. Desire2Learn are now publicly available.
This text is based upon publicly available records. Because much of the record is “sealed” [...]

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Is Blackboard’s Lawyer Calling D2L’s Customers?

By Michael Feldstein | April 24, 2008

Here’s an interesting bit from D2L’s patent blog:

Clients have been calling us to let us know that Matthew Small, General Counsel of Blackboard, has been calling them. From what we understand, his purpose appears to be twofold: (1) to encourage clients to switch to Blackboard ; and (2) to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) with [...]

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