{"id":569,"date":"2006-12-07T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/12\/07\/why-software-patents-are-a-serious-pai"},"modified":"2006-12-07T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T06:31:19","slug":"why-software-patents-are-a-serious-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/12\/07\/why-software-patents-are-a-serious-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why software patents are a serious pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nArsTechnica had a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20061203-8341.html\">story<\/a> on<br \/>\na company named BlackBoard acquiring a patent in relation to e-learning systems.  Here&#8217;s a snippet:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;<br \/>\na broad e-learning patent held by education and course management software company Blackboard. The patent, which was awarded in January of this year, covers &#8220;Internet-based education support system and methods&#8221; &#8230; Specifically, the patent describes an Internet system in which different access rights to various course management resources can be granted to different users.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20061203-8341.html\">Read it yourself<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArsTechnica had a story on a company named BlackBoard acquiring a patent in relation to e-learning systems. Here&#8217;s a snippet: &#8230; a broad e-learning patent held by education and course management software company Blackboard. The patent, which was awarded in January of this year, covers &#8220;Internet-based education support system and methods&#8221; &#8230; Specifically, the patent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}