On 30 May, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)? announced?that it was launching a new fundraising campaign to defeat a pretty blatant patent troll:?Personal Audio LLC, a company that claims to have invented podcasting.
We covered this effort earlier this year, when it first? launched. In January 2013, Personal Audio? sued a few big-name podcasts including the?Adam Carolla Show?and the?Stuff You Should Know?podcasts.
The EFF says it needs to raise money specifically to pay for the "inter partes review," a trial proceeding that examines prior art. A 2011 piece of federal legislation called the "American Invents Act" gave the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) greater authority over its own fees -- and those fees have since? skyrocketed.
"[The inter partes review fees] will cost approximately $25,000 (?16,400) and we'll likely have other costs as well,"?Julie Samuels, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the EFF, told Ars Technica. "The types of reviews we did in the older patent busting cases had fees of approximately $2,000 (?1,300). Big difference, obviously, and further proof that the patent system is stacked against the little guy."
Patent trolls?have gone after some pretty ridiculous things recently, including? online shopping carts, scanners,? Windows Phone tiles, and? rejecting a call?and sending it to voicemail. Just this week, HP fired back against a notorious scan to email patent troll.
At the time of publication, the EFF had?received? $35,000 (?23,000) in donations towards a total goal of $30,000 (?45,700).
This story originally appeared on? ars technica
Image:?Mingo.nl/Flickr/CC
Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/31/podcast-patent-troll
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