I hope this signals the demise of patents that are basically "take something people have been doing since forever, but do it with a computer." In this case, publishing a sequence of stories.

The Alice decision already killed the "do X on a computer" patent viability.

As a podcaster and lover of podcasts I wanted to say a big thank you to IFF. And yes I'm a financial supporter, you should donate too.

I think you mean the EFF

For anyone interested, here's a link to their donation page:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

Do licensees get their money back? What if they were pressured by the lawsuit?

They should have sued.

Wouldn't it be great if the listeners who donated to Adam Carolla's fund got their collective $500,000 back?

Carolla has said on his podcasts many times (years ago) that he spent even more than $500k on lawyer fees and a lot of his total expenses. (I think he said around $1M total was spent)

People were donating to defeat the patent troll though, not settle with them. There were many boxing analogies made.

Yes, the accounting for his legal defense was always annoyingly murky.

The most reasonable thing to do would have been to give it to the EFF, who actually fought the battle Adam was raising money for.

It may be too late for that now, or maybe not.

Great news. But it's still sad that defending common sense requires so much time and effort.

Read the original ruling https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914302/16-1123-O...

In the morning.