Episode 712 • • 1:51 - 6:25
712: Kalette
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Podcasting Patent Invalidation, and Prior Art
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) successfully invalidated a broad podcasting patent by demonstrating prior art from the mid-1990s. The court ruled that the concept of a compilation file containing URL addresses to episodes is unpatentable, effectively protecting the RSS feed structure. The legal victory utilized early examples of digital media distribution from CNN and the Mosaic browser to prove the technology was not a novel invention.