A cNet news.com article by Anne Broache talks about a controvercial e-learning patent.
The Software Freedom Law Center has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate all 44 claims of the Blackboard patent.
The news release from the Software Freedom Law Center includes:
In a free society, there is no room for a monopoly on any part of the educational process, said Eben Moglen, Executive Director of SFLC and Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University. We are confident that there is enough prior art for the Patent Office to open, re-examine, and ultimately revoke all of the patent's claims.