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EduPatent Busted! (But not the one you're thinking of…)

Michael Feldstein · Jan 16, 2008 ·

This good news in from John Lewis:

A long-time target of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Patent Busting Project has finally been destroyed. Back in 1999, Test.com patented for-fee testing over the Internet and has since approached a number of publishers and universities seeking licensing fees. The patent was reexamined last year and now the PTO has officially rejected all of the claims in the patent as “obvious and non-patentable”. Online testing is finally safe for the public domain.

One down….

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  1. BookWise says

    January 16, 2008 at 10:23 PM

    One down and so many to go… Electronic Frontier is the unsung hero of our age.

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  1. Rowin’s blog » Blog Archive » Unpatenting the obvious says:
    January 17, 2008 at 2:11 PM

    […] Many thanks to Pierre Gorissen for forwarding this link discussing the United States Patents and Trademarks Office’s final rejection of Test.com’s controvertial patent, which claimed intellectual property rights over for-fee online assessment.  The breadth of the claimed patent is clear from the original patent text. […]

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