Legal Issues: The Fences of a Patent

Information Today, Vol 26, No 2, p. 13, February 2009

3 Pages Posted: 11 Oct 2013

Date Written: February 1, 2009

Abstract

Now at the center of another patent fight is the Blackboard course-management software, in use at many colleges and universities. The software allows faculty members to post and organize course materials, generate discussion lists, and administer tests in a secure-online environment. Students can log into an institution’s Blackboard servers and arrange to access all of their courses from a single interface.

A patent issued to Blackboard in 2006 for its course management system is at the center of this latest patent fight. A dispute over the patent was raised by a Desire2Learn, Inc. (D2L), a competitor to Blackboard, after Blackboard sued D2L for patent infringement. In responding to the lawsuit, D2L claimed that several of Blackboard’s individual patent claims were invalid.

Keywords: patent, reexamination, BlackBoard, novel, non-obvious

Suggested Citation

Pike, George H., Legal Issues: The Fences of a Patent (February 1, 2009). Information Today, Vol 26, No 2, p. 13, February 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2338651

George H. Pike (Contact Author)

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law ( email )

375 E. Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60611
United States
312-503-0295 (Phone)
312-503-9230 (Fax)

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