A federal appeals court has confirmed that the idea of a podcast cannot be patented.

A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday affirmed a decision that invalidated Personal Audio’s patent on a “System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence.” The decision rendered by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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