Tag Archives: Matthew-Small

Is Blackboard’s Lawyer Calling D2L’s Customers?

By Michael Feldstein | Published: 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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On Edupatents, Corporate Branding, and Putting Words in People’s Mouths

By Michael Feldstein | Published: September 19, 2007
There’s a write-up of the edupatent flap in eSchool News. It provides a reasonably good summary of the basic history, as far as these types of stories tend to go, and also gives a high-level account of the current state of the legal battle. (Short version: It’s dragging on.) All in all, it’s a useful [...]
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Blackboard Patent Celebrity Death Match

By Michael Feldstein | Published: December 10, 2006
I note with satisfaction that Eben Moglen’s keynote speech [MP3] and debate with Matthew Small [MP3] have already been reported and commented on in a number of places. (See, for example, Seb’s analysis.) This pleases me for two reasons. First, it means we have developed a healthy community response mechanism to make sure we are [...]
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Conversations with Desire2Learn and Blackboard

By Michael Feldstein | Published: October 19, 2006
While at EDUCAUSE, I had opportunities to sit down with both Blackboard’s General Counsel Matthew Small and the Desire2Learn executive team. In the spirit of diplomacy, everything in this post has been reviewed by both sides, and there are aspects of our conversations that will remain private. In my conversation with Matt Small, we spent a [...]
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Quick Blackboard Updates

By Michael Feldstein | Published: October 19, 2006
Between multiple family visits and a case of the flu that’s had my flat on my back the last couple of days, I’ve fallen even further behind on my backlog of posts than I was upon returning from EDUCAUSE. In the interest of catching up, this post will be short. First, several bloggers have already [...]
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