{"id":447,"date":"2007-01-30T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=447"},"modified":"2007-01-30T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T17:50:29","slug":"blackboard-patent-to-be-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/blackboard-patent-to-be-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard patent to be reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Campus Technology article on Blackboard patent review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.campustechnology.com\/article.asp?id=20081\">Campus Technology reports<\/a> on a January 25th decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to review Blackboard&#8217;s CMS patent. Take your Dramamine(tm): Blackboard&#8217;s spin is as dizzying as ever. One choice example, as Blackboard general counsel Matthew Small explains how to tell if you&#8217;re infringing on Blackboard&#8217;s patent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you have a system of course-based instruction, a course-management system, and it enables a single user to have multiple roles across multiple courses, and that&#8217;s done in conjunction with a whole bunch of other types of functionality: If you have an application that does that, you might want to see if you fall within [the patent&#8217;s claims].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Technology reports on a January 25th decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to review Blackboard&#8217;s CMS patent. Take your Dramamine(tm): Blackboard&#8217;s spin is as dizzying as ever. One choice example, as Blackboard general counsel Matthew Small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/blackboard-patent-to-be-reviewed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-7d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}