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Please note the "non-final" part of the decision. Bb has 2 months to make counter arguments and D2L/SFLC have 30 days after that to comment on Bb counter arguments. So we may have a final decision around July (depending on how long USPTO take to look at the arguments). Neverthless, the examiner's comments find so many ways in which the patent is defective it seems hard to imagine Bb knocking them all back. John On 31 Mar 2008, at 15:34, Adam Marshall wrote: > So it appears that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected > all 44 > of Blackboard's patent claims: > http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=43980 > > What amuses me greatly is that prior art is referenced, specifically > mentioned (see: issue 1 on page 3 of > http://www.desire2learn.com/patent/USPTO%20Non-Final%20Action.pdf) > is an IMS > Specification document which, as contributing members, Blackboard > must have > indirectly paid for. > > Ooops! > > I hope they have to reimburse Desire2Learn's legal costs, that'd > teach them! > > Adam > > -- > Adam Marshall - OUCS > > 2008 e-learning conferences: > Shock of the Old - Web 2.0, April 3rd - > http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2008 > Beyond Digital Natives, April 4th - > http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2008 > http://www.myspace.com/wheresthebeachmusic > > ***************** List information: ***************** > Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. > Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ > vle.html > To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: > leave vle ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle