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The NOSE: Information Technology in Higher Education: An Important Correction to the Blackboard Patent Story
The USPTO has NOT invalidated the Blackboard patent. Instead the USPTO is proposing to invalidate the patent and has issued some preliminary documents for review and comment. At the end of the day the USPTO still might uphold the patent as valid.
USPTO Rejects Blackboard Patent Claims (Update 8) : March 2008 : THE Journal
e-learning patent looks to be going down. The United States Patent and Trademark Office this week sent out a "non-final" determination on the reexamination of Blackboard's patent in which all of the claims on the patent were rejected. Blackboard still has
Courtroom Showdown Begins in Blackboard's Patent Dispute With Desire2Learn - Chronicle.com
(..) between Blackboard Inc. and Desire2Learn Inc. began this week in a federal courtroom here as lawyers described the humble beginnings of two of the fiercest competitors in the classroom-software industry.
Blackboard vs. Education (starting with Desire2Learn)... | Chris Coppola
This absurd patent is costing the education community millions of dollars and has only one objective: To further conquer and lock colleges, universities, and primary/secondary schools into Blackboard's monopoly.
Blackboard's shutdown statewide - Campus News
Oops: "Due to corrupt data in the statewide database Blackboard Vista, the system shut down, causing thousands of faculty and students at USU to lose all information submitted between Tuesday, Nov. 13 and Friday, Nov. 16."
Bye Bye Blackboard, Hello HAN-Scholar
Nog 97 dagen en dan valt definitief het doek voor Blackboard. Blackboard was jarenlang dé elektronische leeromgeving op de HAN. De komst van het HOF-onderwijs maakte de realisatie van een flexibelere elektronische leeromgeving (ELO) noodzakelijk .
Blackboard, competitor reach agreement to end court fight - Washington Business Journal:
IParadigms LLC has agreed not to sue educational software company Blackboard Inc. to settle a lawsuit. thx to Stephen Downes.
Lessons from Blackboard? at e-Literate
Blackboard’s Second Quarter financial reports and conference call (edited mp3 audio) may say more about eLearning in higher education than it did about Blackboard.
Parallel Installation Pilot
The purpose of the PIP is to evaluate the suitablility of Vista and Sakai for the needs of the UGA community. Faculty, instructors and teaching assistants will be asked to teach using one of these systems , and their students will have the opportunity to
Is MyDropBox.com Vaporware? - D'Arcy Norman dot net
MyDropBox.com, trying to gather more info about their “Peer Re:Mark” peer review building block for Blackboard. (..) The technology has become secondary, though, because the company has been completely unresponsive
Marc Dupuis: Leiden University opts for outsourcing Blackboard
After a period of almost one year of preparation, yesterday Leiden University signed a one year contract with Blackboard ASP Services for hosting our Blackboard environment. Leiden University is the first university in the Netherlands to make this decisio
Auricle
About the patent: "In doing so probably did us all a tremendous favour by forcing us to reflect on whether UK HE really needs to start reducing its dependency on such innovation-stifling technologies and association with companies who are attempting to la
Matthew Small talking on the Sakai conference
Matthew Small trying to convince the Sakai community.... Didn't really work. MP3 or M4A audio file (70 minutes or so).
Inside Higher Ed :: Drop Patent, Educause Urges Blackboard
Drop Patent, Educause Urges Blackboard. The leaders of higher education’s main technology association have written a powerfully worded letter urging Blackboard to relinquish the rights it gained under a controversial patent
EduSite: Blackboard betoogt dat elo-patent beperkte reikwijdte heeft
Dutch: Blackboard is een mini-offensief gestart om misverstanden over het patent dat het verworven heeft op de elektronische leeromgeving (elo) (zie bericht EduSite) weg te nemen.
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This wiki is being set up as a source of information and resources on the issue of Blackboard's patent and the intellectual property issues of e-learning technologies in general
Desire2Learn Patent-Information Blog
We are continuing to gather examples of prior art and appreciate the outpouring of help that has come from the higher-ed community and elsewhere.
Harold Jarche » Elgg and the Blackboard Patent
A reasonable person could not interpret the 44 points as applying to the Elgg Learning Landscape. Elgg uses a completely different model than most online learning systems. It does not use content (e.g. course) as the basic building block, but rather the i
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