Apple Granted Podcast Subscription Patent, Does Not Own Podcasting
By emeadows
August 24, 2012
August 24, 2012
- Apple was granted 29 new patents this week — among them are patents for its podcast subscription service and three iPod designs (iPod Classic and fourth and fifth generation iPod nano).
- Apple’s podcast subscription service was added to its repertoire in 2005. The invention is titled “Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting,” which “pertains to improved podcasts and techniques that facilitate their use,” according to Patently Apple.
- Those techniques include creating, publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, transferring and/or playing podcasts.
- According to the post: “Some are reporting that Apple’s patent win means that they now own the word ‘Podcasting.’ Our report doesn’t reflect that whatsoever. This isn’t a trademark win for Apple.”
- “Apple credits Anne Jones, Thomas Dowdy, Jeffrey Robbin, Mike Wiese and Stephen Davis as the inventors of granted patent 8,245,924 which was originally filed in Q2 2009 and refilled as a continuation patent in Q3 2011,” writes Patently Apple.
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