All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated by USPTO

Submitted by jtirrell on March 29, 2008 - 12:45.

Slashdot has picked up a story stating that all 44 Blackboard patient claims have been invalidated by the USPTO. Such patients may have hindered other Learning Management Systems (such as Moodle) and Content Management Systems (such as Drupal).

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This is great news. I just

Submitted by platypus matt on March 31, 2008 - 09:12.

This is great news. I just hope this stands and doesn't get bogged down in a bunch of appeals and what-not.

Maybe this fiasco will make some of the schools using the commercial systems think harder about the free software option (Moodle). Then again, maybe penguins will fly out of my butt.

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