EFF: Patent Busting Project

I have contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to see if we can get the Blackboard Patent listed under the Patent Busting Project. If any readers have connections to the EFF, let's get this on their radar.

The Patent Busting Project provides a great vehicle for mounting a systematic legal challenge to bogus patents:

"Once it has identified some of the worst offenders, EFF will begin filing challenges to each in the form of a “re-examination request” to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These requests create a forum to affirmatively invalidate patents rather than forcing technology users to await the threat of suit. Under this procedure, EFF can choose particularly egregious patents, submit the prior art it has collected, and argue that the patent should be revoked. EFF will collaborate with members of the software and Internet communities as well as legal clinics and pro bono cooperating attorneys to help in these efforts."