Much of the public awareness and outrage surrounding patent trolls began a few years back when Lodsys started targeting small iOS developers for royalties on in-app purchasing technology. We've since seen similar patent licensing entities go after companies and individuals for infringement of Wi-Fi technologies and network scanner products, to name just a couple. Now a legal battle is forming around the popular activity of podcasting, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation is stepping in to help fight it.
In particular, Personal Audio — another company that seems to only generate revenue from the licensing of its patents — has begun throwing around US patent 8,112,504. The way Personal Audio sees it, '504 is "a fundamental patent...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4381486/A-podcast-distribution-patent-EFF-wants-help-invalidating
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