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EduPatent Updates

On the one hand, Thomson Reuters’ lawsuit against Zotero has been dismissed. Details are scant at this point. We don’t yet know the grounds for dismissal or whether Thomson Reuters will pursue other legal action. On the other hand, the U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate whether Desire2Learn is violating trade laws with [...]
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Three Tests for the ‘New’ Blackboard

Today Blackboard announced that ANGEL’s Ray Henderson will be the new President of the Blackboard Learn division. This is great news. Ray is one of the best executives in educational technology today, known for his competence, his integrity, and his leadership in supporting open standards and openness in general. Does this mean a new beginning [...]
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EduPatent Updates

As others have already noted, Desire2Learn has updated their patent info blog with a smorgasbord of new information. (Frustratingly, the posts on the blogs don’t seem to have permalinks. Except when they do. Ugh.) Anyway, you can go to their blog and look at the April 29th entry for the details, but here are the [...]
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Blackboard Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Desire2Learn in Canada

Once again, Jeff Bohrer gets the scoop. (Add this guy to your feed reader, for sure.) Blackboard has apparently been issued a Canadian patent comparable to its US patent and is suing D2L in Canada. As Jeff puts it, To summarize, here are the active proceedings in this complicated story listed in chronological order: - Blackboard vs. [...]
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Yet Another EduPatent Suit

Jeff Boerer has a good find on this. It looks like Blackboard has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission aleging that Desire2Learn is illegally importing software into the United States that violates a U.S. patent. I don’t know anything more than what Jeff has posted, so I recommend you go to his [...]
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