Patent Office Rejects Blackboard's Claims

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

via Chronicle of Higher Education
Last week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a preliminary ruling rejecting all 57 claims in a software patent that Blackboard Inc. used to successfully sue rival Desire2Learn for infringement. But the long-running patent battle between the two providers of course-management software is far from over, and the re-examination process could drag on for years because of the many chances that Blackboard has to appeal...    full article

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