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Inside HigherEd has recently posted an article about the BlackBoard patent issue and in it BlackBoard’s General Counsel Matthew Small opines… "…Blackboard has no plans tochallenge open source projects on patent issues, and he said that suchchallenges “wouldn’t make good business sense” for the company…" That’s great to hear, but it seems that BlackBoard is […]

I am delighted to post that CALI now has 201 US Law School Members. This past week, the University of Virginia School of Law joined CALI and the recently launched, Drexel University College of Law also joined. This brings the number of US Law School CALI Members to over 200 for the first time in […]

I went in search of information that would help me understand howthe BlackBoard v. Desire2Learn case might play out and want to sharethe results of my research with you. It is important to point out that I am not a lawyer and that none ofwhat I write or say should be interpreted as legal advice […]

I have been following the reaction to the BlackBoard patent closely and I am struck by the fact that I can’t find anyone defending BlackBoard’s actions. I have seen some people explain why they understand that patents are important and why they think BlackBoard feels compelled to patent their work, but I haven’t seen a […]

Austin Groothuis works for CALI (as do I), but he is also a 2L at Chicago-Kent College of Law. His blog has been attracting some positive attention (follow link and see the above graphic) and I realized that I was remiss in mot mentioning this myself after the appropriate disclosures. The blog is loosely aimed […]

Back in 2000, I was reserching content management systems for a legal aid website project I was working on and did some pretty heavy digging into ArsDigita’s ACS system. (that might be redundant as I believe the ‘S’ stands for system). Anyhow, this system was developed by Phillip Greenspun of "Phil and Alex’s Guide to […]

Need to get back into "law school mode"? Here are some podcasts that are up your alley. Elmer pointed me to the NPR-sponsored website for Justice Talking where they post MP3s of shows that are law-related. Recent programs posted include… Immigration Reform Collecting DNA from the Accused: Will it Help or Hurt Law Enforcement? The […]

The Inquirer had a story today about Rambus’ run-in with the Federal Trade Commission. "…THE US FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC) is to file an antitrust case against Rambus Inc, a company which licenses its intellectual property to others.The basis of the case, according to commissioners, is that Rambus allegedly persuaded the JEDEC standards group to […]

The Inquirer has the PDF (no story yet) of the law suit filed by BlackBoard on July 26, 2006 (same day they got their patent) for patent infringement. So much for goodwill, it’s going to be war and Desire2Learn is the front line. This lawsuite has huge ramifications for the educational community – NOT just […]