“The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-nine newly granted patents for Apple Inc. [on Tuesday],” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“In our first granted patent report of the day we cover Apple’s granted patents for Podcasting and three iPod designs. Apple added their podcast-subscription feature in June 2005,” Purcher reports. “In 2006, Steve Jobs demonstrated creating a podcast during his Macworld Conference & Expos keynote using the new podcast studio feature in GarageBand 3. In 2005, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared Podcasting the ‘Word of the Year.'”
Purcher reports, “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.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
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In related news, Samdung has introduced PudCast® and will be represented by Dewey, Cheatham & Howe in impending suit with inc.
PudCast® indeed. Cal Samsung pull the pud out of the cast? hehe.
Grr! “Cal” s/b “Can”
Lets not condemn Dewey, Cheatham & Howe. They were great auto mechanics with a show on PBS. Anyone remember?
no no, they were The Three Stooges’ law firm, originally anyway.
Correct. Click & Clack, the two auto mechanic brothers on NPR would liberally use the Dewey, Cheatham & Howe reference, but they didn’t invent the clever sobriquet.
right, Click & Clack…they also had a syndicated newspaper column to answer automotive questions.
Car Talk is still on the air. I think they’ve announced that they are retiring in the fall, though.
Click & Clack the Tappet brothers.
” Samsung wins court case against Apple ” ooohhh that must hurt. 3 mins 20 secs ago.
Just what did Apple get a patent for, in regards to podcasting?
Is there something technologically unique that Apple developed for non-musical, digital audio/video recordings delivered by iTunes?
We’ll soon see if patents even matter anymore. If Samsung wins, the whole patent system is a sham.