rSmart's President is quoted in an article about the Blackboard Patent

In a recent eSchool News article called "Online-learning patent dispute heats up," Robert L. Jacobson writes that despite recent developments in the case,  experts say the Blackboard's suit of rival Desire2Learn is likely to drag on quite a while. The case is 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.  Chris Coppola, President of The rSmart Group and a Sakai board member, who back up open-source software for education, is quoted in the articles that the tide is moving against Blackboard, and that its "just a matter of time" before Blackboard will loose its patent.

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