Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court

Arguendo writes "A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Blackboard Inc.'s patent on a learning management system is invalid in light of the inventors' own prior software product. We have previously discussed the patent and Blackboard's trial court victory against Desire2Learn. It's not completely over, but this is almost certainly the death knell for Blackboard's patent. If so inclined, you may read the appellate court's decision here (PDF) or on scribd."

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Only the first po5t gets the patent

[Anonymous Coward]

Desire2pwn

Hurry!!!

[Drakkenmensch]

Quick, post your comments on slashdot before Blackboard patents a method for providing an interface that allows snarky and/or sarcastic comments to forum posts!!!

Blackboard's patent

[Rik Sweeney]

A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are...

lol.

Good call

[MickyTheIdiot]

Somebody tried to patent the blackboard?

Now THERE's a stretch...

Scribd? Gee, thanks.

[CarpetShark]

you may read the appellate court's decision here (PDF) or on scribd.

Or if scribd is insufficiently annoying, we can print it out with an old 40 chars-per-line dot matrix, onto toasted wholemeal bread. We can then supply a strong lamp, a pen, and some blank bread for use as notepaper whilst you attempt to decipher it.

Re:Blackboard execs should all be killed

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Blackboard is a leading industry LMS provider - they are really good at what they do.

The above sentence contains two statements. One of these statements is true, and one is false. Please indicate which is which, and submit your answer.

Re:Blackboard execs should all be killed

[amicusNYCL]

Oh yeah: we're also a small company that has no affiliation at all to Blackboard.