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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

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legal implications of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise (OSP) and explains why it should not be relied upon by developers concerned about patent risk. "Because free software developers cannot implement OOXML freely, we urge that it not be approved as

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(..) 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.

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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.

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IParadigms LLC has agreed not to sue educational software company Blackboard Inc. to settle a lawsuit. thx to Stephen Downes.

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We feel a strong responsibility to the Linux community (..). That’s why today we became a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN). (..) concept behind OIN is simple. All OIN licensees, including participants such as IBM, Oracle, NEC and Sony, agree

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The author discusses how a recent shift in patent case law means that the ideas and methods underlying software can now be protected and assigned ownership.

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Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software, today announced the addition of a new client, the GNOME Foundation.

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The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology, by the removal of barriers to competition.

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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

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Het Linux-pact tussen Novell en Microsoft legde opnieuw een splitsing in de open-sourcegemeenschap bloot tussen de pragmatici en revolutionairen.

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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

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The IMS team requested an audience with BB management to allow for it's members to pose questions on the recent lawsuit against D2L.

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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

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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.

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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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