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Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-now-isn't-that-special dept.

chizz writes "Online learning provider Blackboard announced the other day that it has patented the Learning Management System (LMS). The very same day it went after Desire2Learn for Patent infringement in a truly Salt Lake City kinda way. A great many educators are a bit shook up by this, and are stockpiling prior art all over the place. "

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  1. Salt Lake City kinda way? by ToxikFetus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm confused. What is "a truly Salt Lake City kinda way?" Patent Polygamy? A beatdown from The Mormon Stick of Justice(TM)? Eating 6 saltines in a minute?

  2. Re:Not a Salt Lake City thing by Asic+Eng · · Score: 3, Funny
    Now if you want to complain about the hookers on State and 400 South, well ...

    What's wrong with them? Bad service?