Appellate Court Overturns Blackboard Patent; Blackboard To Press On

August 2, 2009

Blackboard’s patent on learning management system technologies has been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court ruled Monday in favor of Desire2Learn and invalidated some claims in patent No. 6,988,138, also known as the “Alcorn patent” or the “138 patent.” But the saga will continue.

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Source: Campus Technology