{"id":226,"date":"2006-08-17T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/wheres-the-beef\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T15:33:03","slug":"wheres-the-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/wheres-the-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the beef?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently sent me a BBC article on a patent granted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/\">Blackboard<\/a> covering an Internet-based education server, or as the lingo goes in the industry, a Learning Management System. I&#8217;ve read the <a href=\"http:\/\/noedupatents.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Blackboard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s_US_patent_6%2C988%2C138\">claims<\/a> and I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/tatler.typepad.com\/nose\/2006\/08\/in_search_of_pr_1.html\">Alfred Essa<\/a>, this patent describes a generic system for online learning and is not an invention at all, but a software and hardware integration effort described in legal terms. It should never have been granted as a patent, and it&#8217;s unfortunate that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desire2learn.com\/\">Desire2Learn<\/a> now has to spend time and money <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/images\/articles\/blackboard.pdf\">defending itself<\/a> against these obvious claims, rather than competing in the open marketplace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently sent me a BBC article on a patent granted to Blackboard covering an Internet-based education server, or as the lingo goes in the industry, a Learning Management System. I&#8217;ve read the claims and I agree with Alfred Essa, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/wheres-the-beef\/\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}