Podcasting Community Faces Patent Troll Threat; EFF Wants to Help | Electronic Frontier Foundation
More leaches out there. A company called Personal Audio claims ownership of a patent that covers “Apparatus for disseminating a series of episodes represented by media files via the Internet as said episodes become available…”
Isn’t that just about everything? I remember one equally vague patent that claimed to be for ALL ecommerce. This seems to be a trend of law firms buying up small companies with a patent they can try to extort money with. Read more on EFF.org below.
Podcasting Community Faces Patent Troll Threat; EFF Wants to Help | Electronic Frontier Foundation.