Supreme Court declines to hear "podcasting patent" case, handing win to EFF

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: May 15, 2018 at 10:28:03 AM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Supreme Court declines to hear "podcasting patent" case, handing win to EFF
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>
> Supreme Court declines to hear “podcasting patent” case, handing win to EFF
> Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.
> By CYRUS FARIVAR
> May 15 2018
> <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/podcasting-patent-case-is-finally-totally-and-completely-dead-now/>
>
> Podcasters, you can now engage in your lengthy Maron opens without the feeling of being legally targeted by a Texas 
> company that many would consider to be a patent troll.
> On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case of Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier 
> Foundation. In short, the case is all said and done.
>
> As Ars reported in August 2017, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the April 2015 inter partes 
> review (IPR) ruling—a process that allows anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the US Patent and Trademark 
> Office.
>
> Back in 2013, Personal Audio began sending legal demand letters to numerous podcasters and companies, like Samsung, 
> in an apparent attempt to cajole them into a licensing deal lest they be slapped with a lawsuit. (Some of those 
> efforts were successful: in August 2014, Adam Carolla raised about $500,000 as part of a possible legal defense fund. 
> Carolla settled with Personal Audio, but it’s unclear how much money, if any, changed hands.)
>
> As Personal Audio began to gain more public attention, however, the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped in to 
> challenge Personal Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504. That patent describes a “system for disseminating media content 
> representing episodes in a serialized sequence.”
>
> Personal Audio did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment on Monday afternoon.



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