A poke with a sharp stick » Blog Archive » Blackboard’s LMS Patent

Strongly agree with this one. US Patent laws are getting completely out of hand! Rather that fostering innovation, which was their original purpose, they are now merely enriching lawyers. The worst are these patent holding companies, like that one that RIM had trouble with earlier this summer. All they do is sit on potentially profitable but undeveloped ideas, wait for somebody else to figure out how to actually make their idea come to fruition, and then pounce for profits. And now the ridiculous US legal system is affecting the rest of us. We in Canada are not immune to this one!