I believe that their patents together meant that any commercial Blackboard-like software was infringing on their IP. This is a list of companies that were probably infringing on Blackboard's fortunately invalid patents. http://www.mfeldstein.com/the_blackboard_patent_claims_in_pl... http://www.google.com/patents?id=RX94AAAAEBAJ&dq=6,988,1... That's their first and biggest one and it's obscene.
I believe that their patents together meant that any commercial Blackboard-like software was infringing on their IP. This is a list of companies that were probably infringing on Blackboard's fortunately invalid patents. http://www.mfeldstein.com/the_blackboard_patent_claims_in_pl... http://www.google.com/patents?id=RX94AAAAEBAJ&dq=6,988,1... That's their first and biggest one and it's obscene.