Legal Opinion
Blackboard, Inc. v. Desire2Learn, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 27, 2009No. 2008-1368, 2008-1396, 2008-1548PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
Blackboard Inc. is the market leader in providing educational institutions with course management software that allows interaction between students and teachers over the Internet. Desire2Learn Inc. is Blackboard’s primary commercial competitor. This appeal arises from an action by Blackboard against Desire2Learn for infringement of Blackboard’s U.S. Patent No. 6,988,138 (“the '138 patent”), which claims an Internet-based educational support system and related methods.
The '138 patent is not the inventors’ first work in the field of education-support software. In 1996,…
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