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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Blackboard’s Response to the USPTO Office Action
Published by May 28th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentWhat I Want from the EDUCAUSE Seminar on Edupatents
Published by May 28th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsSeb 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 […]
More Tech Radium v. Blackboard, Inc.
Published by May 21st, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsI conferred with Jim Farmer on new patent infringement suit and a few interesting points came out:
Tech Radium is suing Blackboard for violating three patents, some but not all of which are education-specific. This may or may not matter to you, depending on how you feel about software patents in general versus edupatents in particular.
Tech […]
Blackboard, Inc. Sued for Patent Infringement
Published by May 20th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentA company called TechRadium is suing Blackboard in East Texas (Marshall, not Lufkin) for allegedly infringing on their patent on mass notification systems. (Blackboard bought emergency notifications company NTI recently.) im+m has a copy of the complaint posted. We’ll try to get some analysis posted when we can. In the meantime, if you have a […]
Blackboard v. Desire2Learn: The First Final Judgment
Published by May 14th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentThis 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” […]
