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Monday, December 11, 2006
Blackboard: two separate re-examination requests to the US Patent and Trade Mark Office - Seb Schmoller, Fortnightly Mailing
Two separate and almost simultaneous requests to the US Patent and Trade Mark Office have been issued in the US against Blackboard's US Patent 6,988,138. The first, on 17/11/2006 was issued by the New York based Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), acting in support of the makers of 3 Open Source VLE systems: Moodle, Sakai, and ATutor. The second, on 1/12/2006, was issued by the Canadian VLE company Desire2Learn, against whom Blackboard issued patent infringement proceedings earlier in the year. On the same day Desire2Learn also issued an application to the court for a stay in the patent infringement proceedings pending re-examination of Patent 6,988,138 by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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