eSchool News schrieb / wrote: Article: Blackboard, D2L square off for court fight: Wed, Jan 16, 2008 – Allegations fly as Blackboard’s patent infringement suit against Desire2Learn heads for a showdown. A jury trial is slated to begin Feb. 11 in Blackboard’s patent suit against Desire2Learn. Allegations that Blackboard Inc., the No. 1 course- management software firm, is using costly litigation to injure a smaller rival, Desire2Learn (D2L), are part of the backdrop to a federal trial set to begin on Feb. 11. Blackboard has sued for patent infringement, which D2L denies. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=51643

eSchool News schrieb / wrote: Article: Blackboard’s patent win shocks D2L: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 – $3.1M verdict against Desire2Learn may not be last word. You could call it, simply, "Round One" for Blackboard Inc. At least, that’s the term that people in the Kitchener, Ontario, offices of Desire2Learn Inc. (D2L) were using after a federal district-court jury in Texas hit their small Canadian company with a $3.1 million judgment for infringing the patent rights of Blackboard, a much larger American company that dominates the commercial market for course-management software. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=52659

Google News-Alert eLearning schrieb / wrote: Artikel: E-Learning Patent: Wir hatten schon mehrfach darüber berichtet: Die US-Firma Blackboard hat sich ein (heftig umstrittenes) Patent auf "E-Learning" eintragen lassen. In der Folge wurde ein erster Mitbewerber wegen Verletzung dieses Patents verklagt – wie es scheint hat Blackboard die ersten Runde gewonnen. […] Als erster Konkurrent wurde Desire 2 Learn verklagt – und Blackboard hat gewonnen. Besonders in E-Learningblogs stößt das Ergebnis weltweit auf (milde gesagt) Unverständnis. http://www.reticon.de/news/elearning-patent_2083.html http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84314

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