G+_Yves Dionne Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 I've been hearing Leo Laporte make remarks for a while now about a patent troll, starting with Adam Carolla and more recently sounding like TWiT is now the focus of a Personal Audio lawsuit. Does anyone know if that's the case? Is there anything that we the TWiT Army can do to help? I've been a huge fan since TWiT ep0, and can't imagine getting through the week without a my TWiT-fix. If there is something going on, and we can do anything, please let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Andrew Boyter Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Yep, there's a company in TX claiming they were granted a patent in '12. The patent is regarding a “System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence.” Apple lost a patent suit to Personal Audio LLC to the tune of $8 million in July of '11. Here's the best (and only) article I've been able to find describing the situation: http://9to5mac.com/2013/01/10/patent-troll-personal-audio-llc-sues-itunes-top-podcaster-adam-carollas-ace-broadcasting/ Obviously, we just have to hope that a court won't rule that a technology that's been in use for over a decade can't be limited by a patent granted last year. Crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Prior art should sufficiently kill this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert “Dr. Shocker” Be Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I was wondering if TWiT had been included since Uncle Leo started wording things differently. Being in the middle of my own idiotic lawsuit I notice how things are said these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I don't believe TWiT has been approached as yet. They may be looking for a win with Adam Corolla then plan to hit others. I seriously doubt they'll get a win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Andrew Boyter Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I hope not, but then Apple won against Samsung despite prior art. Don't get me wrong, I'm an Apple guy all the way, but I didn't think Apple had that strong of a case. The point is, the Patent system is broken and all we can ask of the courts is to enforce a broken system as well as it can. I think Leo is just being a little more cautious than usual. He spends money like a madman, but only on things he wants to spend money on. I doubt fighting off patent trolls is one of those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Harry Schilbach Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 For background on patent trolls there's a great This American Life podcast about the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Tatum Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I suggest we all email/twitter/share with the CEO of Personal Audio this video clip and than go on to pester him digitally. Cause fuck patent trolls, we all have certain skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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