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Re:Christ, I hate Blackboard by rch on Saturday January 25, 2014 @04:50PM (#7122640)
I would love to know what the more important patents are, if anyone has been looking around and happens to have a list.
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Re:Christ, I hate Blackboard by nate_meurer on Saturday January 25, 2014 @05:02PM (#7122701)
As far as I know there was one main patent -- 6,988,138 -- which was utter garbage and was invalidated in 2009.

It was this patent which BlackBoard used to try to shut down a competitor named Desire2Learn in 2006. The invalidation forced Blackboard to retreat, and they've since been much quieter on the legal front.

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Re:Christ, I hate Blackboard by rch on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:44PM (#7123056)
Interesting - Thanks. It's downright annoying to read a patent like that, and I'm happy to hear it was invalidated.
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