{"id":6555,"date":"2012-08-24T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2012-08-24T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T15:10:32","slug":"should-i-be-worried-about-apples-podcasting-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/should-i-be-worried-about-apples-podcasting-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I be worried about Apple&#8217;s podcasting patent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple have been awarded their podcasting patent on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&amp;r=29&amp;p=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PTXT&amp;S1=%28%40PD%3E%3D20120819%3C%3D20120821+AND+Apple.ASNM.%29&amp;OS=ISD\/8\/19\/2012-%3E8\/21\/2012+AND+AN\/Apple&amp;RS=%28ISD\/20120819-%3E20120821+AND+AN\/Apple%29\">Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure there&#8217;s a bundle of prior art here (<a href=\"http:\/\/epeus.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Kevin?<\/a>), but I&#8217;m looking at this with a cold chill.\u00a0I&#8217;m not a patent lawyer, but it looks to me that Apple have walked up to the very big podcasting table, opened their jacket enough for everyone to see them carrying an AK-47 Assault Rifle, and have sat down with an innocent smile on their face.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the other foot to drop on this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Kevin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmarks\/status\/238914126095716352\">points out<\/a>, via Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/epeus.blogspot.co.uk\/2005\/12\/of-bloggercon-and-podcasting.html\">his prior art late in 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple have been awarded their podcasting patent on &#8220;Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting&#8221; Pretty sure there&#8217;s a bundle of prior art here (Kevin?), but I&#8217;m looking at this with a cold chill.\u00a0I&#8217;m not a patent lawyer, but it looks to me that Apple have walked up to the very big podcasting table, opened their jacket enough for everyone to see them carrying an AK-47 Assault Rifle, and have sat down with an innocent smile on their face. I&#8217;m waiting for the other foot to drop on this one&#8230; Update: Kevin points out, via Twitter, his prior art late in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[606,25,18],"tags":[3764,191,1186,5495,3763],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-podcasting","tag-3764","tag-apple","tag-patent","tag-podcasting","tag-uspto","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1HJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}