Company Claims to Own Online Testing

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

By DAN CARNEVALE

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...

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