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You may recall that Blackboard purchased a patent in what appeared to be a fruitless attempt to countersue TechRadium, the company that sued them for patent infringement over their emergency warning system and that now is suing Twitter. It turns out that the purchase was not quite fruitless after all, because Blackboard used it to get some sort of cross-licensing agreement with TechRadium (with undisclosed terms) in return for TechRadium dropping the suit.
Well, that apparently freed up some bandwidth on Blackboard’s legal team, and you know what they say about idle hands. Blackboard is now pre-emptively suing the individuals from whom they purchased the patent. Washington Business Journal has the scoop: