Online-learning patent dispute heats up Published: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports Author(s) and Contributors: Author(s): Robert Jacobson Source(s) and Collection(s): Sources(s): Community ParentTopics: Copyright Learning Management Systems (LMS) Abstract The patent dispute heats up between enterprise software makers Blackboard Inc. and Desire2Learn Inc. over patent rights that Blackboard was granted in January 2006 for its course-management software and other eLearning products. Download Resources Access HTML