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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> EFF Launches Full-Court Press To Bust Podcasting Patent<u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 30, 2013<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Contact:<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Julie Samuels<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Staff Attorney and The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Electronic Frontier Foundation<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=julie@eff.org" target="_blank">julie@eff.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
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<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Daniel Nazer<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Staff Attorney<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Electronic Frontier Foundation<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=daniel@eff.org" target="_blank">daniel@eff.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
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<font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">EFF Launches Full-Court Press To Bust Podcasting Patent <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Campaign Will Use Crowd-Power and New Law to Invalidate <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Patent Trolls’ Claim <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">San Francisco - The patent trolls have gone far enough: <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Starting today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">mounting a new, focused campaign to bust the dangerous <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">patent that a Texas company has been using to shakedown <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">podcasters. EFF intends to challenge the original grant of <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">that patent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">proving that the company, Personal Audio, did not really <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">invent anything new. <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Claiming it owns the patent that broadly covers podcasting <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">technology, Personal Audio is the classic example of a <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">patent troll that neither makes nor sells anything, but <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">uses its patent as a weapon to threaten lawsuits and extort <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">settlement fees. This particular troll has bullied <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">prominent podcasts and podcasters, including How Stuff <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Works and Adam Carolla, in addition to smaller podcasters <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">working out of their own homes. <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">"Patent trolls have been wreaking havoc on innovative <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">companies for some time now," said EFF Staff Attorney Julie <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Samuels, who also holds the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Stupid Patents. "But this particular breed of <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">troll--targeting end users, small businesses, startups, and <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">even individuals like podcasters for simply using everyday <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">products--is a disturbing new threat." <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">EFF is partnering with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard's <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Berkman Center for Internet and Society to use a new legal <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">tool against this patent called the "inter partes review," <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">which was introduced by the America Invents Act. The first <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">step is to identify "prior art," or published examples of <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">similar or identical ideas, that existed before October 2, <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">1996. EFF is putting out a call today to the podcasting <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">community to spread the word and help us collect the prior <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">art we need to fight this dangerous patent. EFF is also <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">looking for financial support to take on this challenge, <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">which--even with pro bono help--will likely cost nearly <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">$30,000. <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">"A podcaster working out of a garage is unlikely to have <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">the financial resources to fight a lawsuit," said EFF Staff <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Attorney Daniel Nazer. "Patent trolls like Personal Audio <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">know this and use the threat of ruinous litigation costs as <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">a weapon. Defeating this patent at the PTO would put an <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">end to Personal Audio's campaign." <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Because of the deep and systemic problems in the American <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">patent system, EFF is spearheading the Defend Innovation <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">project to advocate for reform. EFF is asking the public <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">to sign on to our petition at <a href="http://defendinnovation.org" target="_blank">defendinnovation.org</a> and to <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">comment on seven recommended proposals we think would make <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">the broken system work better for software. In the <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">meantime, EFF is doing its best to rid the world of one <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">more bad patent in the hands of a patent troll and help out <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">podcasters who find themselves staring down the barrel of a <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">gun. <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For more on the Save Podcasting campaign:<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/help-save-podcasting" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/help-save-podcasting</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For technical details of the search for prior art:<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/3884/call-for-prior-art-system-for-disseminating-media-content-representing-episodes" target="_blank">http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/3884/call-for-prior-art-system-for-disseminating-media-content-representing-episodes</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Donate to fund this campaign:<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/save-podcasting" target="_blank">https://supporters.eff.org/donate/save-podcasting</a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For this release:<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-full-court-press-bust-podcasting-patent" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-full-court-press-bust-podcasting-patent</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">About EFF<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">organization protecting civil liberties in the digital <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">world. Founded in 1990, we defend free speech online, fight <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">illegal surveillance, promote the rights of digital <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">innovators, and work to ensure that the rights and freedoms <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">we enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">technology grows. EFF is a member-supported organization. <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Find out more at <a href="https://www.eff.org" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></pre><pre><font color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> -end-<u></u><u></u></span></font></pre>
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