EduGeek Journal

I’ll keep this brief and simple, so as not to confuse anyone. Especially CEOs. Patenting online educational ideas is bad for the educational community. At best, you will sound foolish like Blackboard, and try to patent ideas that were already in existence years before you claim to have come up with them. Worst case scenario: you will lose a lot of money.

And lets not forget how they will stifle innovation in the education market.

Don’t believe me? How about an article in the NY Times today?

The amount of money that you spend to protect the patent will eat up most of your profit.

Did I mention that it will stifle innovation in the education market?

For more information, see http://noedupatents.org/