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More Tech Radium v. Blackboard, Inc.
http://mfeldstein.com/ more-tech-radium-v-blackboard-inc/
I conferred with Jim Farmer on new patent infringement suit and a few interesting points came out: Tech Radium is suing Blackboard for violating three patents, some but not all of which are education-specific. This may or may not matter to you, depending on how you feel about software patents in general versus edupatents in particular. Tech Radium has held at least one of these patents for 2 years but is only filing suit now. It’s likely that NTI wasn’t big enough to go after from a financial perspective but that Blackboard is. As is usually the case in these sorts of situations, Blackboard has a strong economic motive to settle quickly.
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More Tech Radium V. Blackboard, Inc.
http://www.technology4teachers.com/?q=node/8432More Tech Radium V. Blackboard, Inc. Feldstein writes, "these are patents about unified messaging to mobile phones and the like." And I agree with this: "This is a critical growth area for educational technology. It is in the interest of higher education to see Blackboard fight this patent, just as it has been in the interest of higher education to see D2L fight the 138 patent." Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, May 22, 2008 [Tags: Patents, Copyrights, Blackboard Inc., Patents] [Link] [Comment] Read original article.
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