Caso Pizarra Blackboard: Patent Office Orders Re-Examination of Blackboard Patent

Hace mucho que no que no se producían noticias del Caso Pizarra Blackboard.

NEW YORK, January 25, 2007 — In response to a formal request filed by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today ordered re-examination of the e-learning patent owned by Blackboard Inc.

SFLC, provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software, had filed the request in November on behalf of Sakai, Moodle, and ATutor, three open source educational software projects. The Patent Office found that prior art cited in SFLC’s request raises «a substantial new question of patentability» regarding all 44 claims of Blackboard’s patent.

The patent in question, «Internet-based education support system and methods» (U.S. 6988138), grants Blackboard a monopoly on most educational software that differentiates between the roles of teacher and student until the year 2022. In July, Blackboard filed a lawsuit against Desire2Learn, a competing educational software maker, alleging infringement of its e-learning patent.(leer más…)

Fuente: [groklaw]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, Blackboard patent, web 2.0