May 18, 2007
Supreme Court's Patent Ruling Could Spell Trouble for Blackboard and Others
Critics of Blackboard Inc. and other companies that have patents on learning technology are welcoming a recent Supreme Court ruling that they hope may invalidate many of those patents as "obvious."
No decision has yet been made on the patents in question, but experts say the patent-law landscape has changed. Under the new ruling, what was once patentable may not be anymore.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously last month in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. that the U.S.
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