>From Phil Driscoll at SF-UK Apologies to members who already know about this from Moodle forums: http://www.blackboard.com/patent/patentpress.htm
Patent is here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 Summary - Blackboard have obtained a broad patent on many of the aspects of an online learning system. The patent has been granted in the US, Australia and New Zealand, and its status is 'applied for' in Europe and many other places. I can't spot anything in the patent which would pass any sensible test for 'non-obviousness', and I'm sure that there is a wealth of prior art. Is there anything that can be done to make sure this doesn't get through in EU? Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
