{"id":10806,"date":"2017-08-08T07:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10806"},"modified":"2017-08-08T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:48:54","slug":"no-you-cant-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/08\/no-you-cant-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"No, You Can&#8217;t Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who perform podcasts, this\u00a0<i><b>TechCrunch\u00a0<\/b><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/08\/07\/personal-audio-loses-its-appeal-for-podcasting-patent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/08\/07\/personal-audio-loses-its-appeal-for-podcasting-patent\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502230285417000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEkK9ceBdBi2n01yp4NN3jLn-lQng\">report\u00a0<\/a>will no doubt come as a relief:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p><span class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-s1\">A year after taking up the case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1123.Opinion.8-3-2017.1.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1123.Opinion.8-3-2017.1.PDF&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502230285417000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF7sW1d576NojsCWlj4Sob0nMYLYQ\">has ruled in favor<\/a>\u00a0of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its challenge against podcasting patent troll, Personal Audio. The decision is a massive relief for the vibrant and ever-growing medium, which has been operated under the threat of lawsuit for a number of years. &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-p1\"><span class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-s1\">The case involves Personal Audio\u2019s broad patent for a \u201cSystem for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence,\u201d which the company used to levy suits against a number of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-s1\">podcast providers, including Adam Corolla, HowStuffWorks, CBS, and NBC.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-s1\">The EFF filed a petition challenging the patent in 2013, urging the US Patent and Trademark Office to take another look at the broad ruling.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-p1\"><span class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-s1\">You just have to wonder what societal purpose these patent trolls serve.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-p1\"><span class=\"m_6481953668125929246gmail-s1\">And, no doubt irrelevantly, don&#8217;t the old-time radio programs serve as prior art? Or is that something too different to apply?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who perform podcasts, this\u00a0TechCrunch\u00a0report\u00a0will no doubt come as a relief: A year after taking up the case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit\u00a0has ruled in favor\u00a0of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its challenge against podcasting patent troll, Personal Audio. The decision is a massive relief \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/08\/no-you-cant-have-it\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10807,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions\/10807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}