Barry Dahl read the Sakai Foundation’s recent announcement about the Blackboard patent pretty closely and is concerned that it sounds like they think the fight is over. I completely understand why he interpreted it that way, but I read it a little differently. If you look closely at the specifics of the legal situation, the […]
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What the Sakai Announcement Means
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentBlackboard Fails Statistics 101
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentBlackboard has posted their response to the USPTO ruling. They make some claims about how this will impact the trial, which I’m not in a position to evaluate just yet. They mention that all of the claims in the re-examination request “were unsuccessfully raised by Desire2Learn during recent litigation,” which is irrelevant since these are […]
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated by USPTO
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 21 CommentsThis just in:
On March 25, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued its Non-Final Action on the re-examination of the Blackboard Patent. We are studying the document, found here, but in short, the PTO has rejected all 44 of Blackboard’s claims. We caution that this is a NON-final action; both Blackboard and Desire2Learn will have […]
Blackboard Inter Partes Determination Published
Published by February 27th, 2007 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentYou can find the documentation here. The USPTO found 13 of Desire2Learn’s 14 claims to raise substantial new questions of patentability. However, the government did not a preliminary finding, as is usual with an Inter Partes challenge, because they are considering whether this challenge should be merged with the Ex Parte challenge filed by the […]
Ex Parte and Inter Partes Patent Re-Examination
Published by December 3rd, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Digital Democracy. 1 CommentAs you know by now, the Blackboard patent has been challenged at the USPTO by separate requests filed by the SFLC and D2L respectively. SFLC filed what’s known as an ex parte request, while D2L filed what’s known as an inter partes request. I think it’s important for the community to become familiar with these […]
