NEWS ANALYSIS

Patent Office Hands Blackboard a Setback

By KATHERINE MANGAN

In March the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a preliminary decision that could have sweeping ramifications for universities that use course-management software, as well as for the companies that make it.

The "nonfinal" decision rejects all 44 claims Blackboard Inc. made for its controversial patent...

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