More Patent Pa-doodle.

Quoting here from Cyberdash. This time the fun starts on the end of the scale with the deep pockets. If your business is e-Learning, you're going to see more of this.

Company Claims to Own Online Testing.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education (26 March 2004--subscribers only), Test Central Inc. is claiming a patent on many forms of online testing and has been sending letters to college and universities asking for license fees.

The Chronicle notes that this patent probably won't hold up in court since education can provide evidence that this sort of activity was going on before the date of the patent application in 1999. And they point out how refuting a patent is an expensive process.

Just another day in the financially-driven IP world of fun and profit at the public's expense.

2:27:45 PM