March 26, 2004

Company Claims to Own Online Testing

By DAN CARNEVALE

A patent holder demands fees from colleges that use a common tool of distance education

When Regis University put some of its courses online in the 1990s, officials there figured that it was a no-brainer to administer tests online as well. And so they did.

Last fall, however, they received a threatening letter from Test Central Inc., which holds a patent on various types of online testing. The company claims that Regis and other colleges may be infringing on that patent and, if

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