Chronicle: In Preliminary Ruling, Patent Office Rejects Blackboard's Claims
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Date: 20 Apr 2009 08:26
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Summary:
Blackboard was granted the patent in question—No. 6,988,138, described as an "Internet-based-education support system and methods"—in January 2006, but the patent office agreed to review it a year later after critics of the company argued that the patent was overly broad and covered software practices that had been in use by colleges and other companies for years at the time it was filed. In the latest ruling, the patent examiner essentially agreed with those arguments.
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