Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
The fact this patent was granted in the first place seems completely absurd. But then again, we live in a world where Boeing has a patent on certain trajectories that use the moon's gravity (<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6116545" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6116545</a>), so it shouldn't really surprise me.