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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the stand-by-for-podcast dept.

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Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.

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.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/podcasting-patent-case-is-finally-totally-and-completely-dead-now/


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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:30AM

    by sjames (2882) on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:30AM (#680572) Journal

    More properly, because FLAC is too big and aac is too patented. I predict we'll see a lot of MP3 until the patents on AAC expire. Then we'll see lots of AAC.

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