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."

Comments

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!!!

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

[amicusNYCL]

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