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Here's the press release from the company: http://personalaudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Personal-Audio-Asserts-Podcasting-Patent-Against-Media-Companies

• eksith 14y ago
  As I'm scanning those, I'm forced to wonder: What exactly is a patent supposed to do? Do the good folks at the patent office even know? This seems to me a scheme of reinventing existing inventions with the injection of paraphrases and more sentences. It's not even "X on a network" or "X on a computer" any more, it's just a vague reiteration of technology already in use for years, if not a decade or more. The entire patent system is a convoluted web of things which potentially exist which in turn is built on a deeper layer of things which potentially exist and so on... and how exactly is innovation supposed to happen when a non-trivial percentage of the links on those interconnected web are based on obvious things that should have been rejected?
  • noonespecial 14y ago
    I think the thing you might be grappling with is that when it comes to software, they seem to have allowed the patenting of the implications of inventions, rather than the inventions themselves. Instead of patents on cars, they've allowed people to patent the idea of driving cars to particular destinations.