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Company Receives Patent for Podcasting
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| VoloMedia, a podcast analytics, advertising, and distribution company, just
| received a patent for "providing episodic media," including podcasts.
| According to the company, which filed for the patent in November 2003, U.S.
| Patent 7,568,213 covers all episodic media downloads, not just the
| RSS-dependent downloads that power today's podcasts. VoloMedia CEO Murgesh
| Navar says that the company doesn't plan to go after individual podcasters,
| but that the company plans to "work collaboratively with key participants in
| the industry." We do wonder, however, if VoloMedia can really claim to have
| invented podcasting in 2003, given that the concept was already under
| development by Dave Winer and others in late 2000 and early 2001.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/company_receives_patent_for_podcasting.php
Statement of David J. Kappos, Nominee for Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/07/statement-of-david-j-kappos-nominee-for-under-secretary-of-commerce-for-intellectual-property.html
Recent:
RIMM To Pay $267.5 Million To Settle Visto Patent Suit
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| Research In Motion (RIMM) this morning said it will pay $267.5 million as
| part of an agreement to settle all existing patent litigation with
| venture-backed Visto, which is now known as Good Technology.
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/07/16/rimm-to-pay-2675-million-to-settle-visto-patent-suit/
The Linux Defenders: Stop the Trolls, Protect Linux, Further Innovation
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| Patent Trolls are an ever-growing threat to global innovation. These IP
| aggregators purchase low-quality patents and use them as leverage to hijack
| potential revenue and profits from hardware and software companies, our
| largest economic driver. This causes entrepreneurs to reconsider launching
| companies, while CEOs devote more of their time and resources to managing
| intellectual property. New online and offline tools and services are becoming
| available to combat Patent Trolls and enable technology companies to focus on
| their core business.
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http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en/program/freies-vortragsprogramm/wednesday/details.html?talkid=582
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