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August 17, 2006

Blackboard's patent - the wiki

Seb Schmoller points out that the article in Wikipedia about the history of virtual learning environments was created on July 29, and just a couple of weeks and hundreds of edits later, it's pretty durn good. But this is not idle knowledge. It comes in the face of the patent granted to Blackboard. The article tacitly establishes prior art.

Well, not entirely tacitly. A notice at the top of the article links to a wiki that contests the Blackboard patent claim by claim. [Tags: blackboard patent vle education wikipedia seb_schmoller]

Posted by D. Weinberger at August 17, 2006 01:00 PM

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Actually, the wiki page that contests Blackboard's patent claim by claim is at NoEduPatents.org. At any rate, thank you for alerting your readers to this important issue.

Posted by: Michael Feldstein | August 17, 2006 01:42 PM

Fixed the link. And I fixed the link to Seb's site.

Don't take it personally. I'm just an idiot.

Posted by: David Weinberger [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 17, 2006 01:47 PM

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