The article on the Chronicle site is behind a subscription wall, but coverage is provided on PoliTechBot. In a nutshell, a company is claiming to have obtained patents for testing over the internet. The company, Test Central Inc., says that it doesn't own patents on every sort of testing, but the patents they do hold are very broad - excessively so, say some. "It's very, very general," she (Ellen K. Waterman, director of distance learning at Regis University) says. "If you can patent anything that people do on the Web, we are not protected at all." Test Central has sent letters to an undisclosed number of colleges and universities in what could become a disruptive campaign.
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