Mike August
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Dec
Mike August’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But that's not the system, as you say, we have created for ourselves.
We have to rise to their –
claim with equal strength.
We've got to spend like they spend.
Well, because in patent law, essentially the burden is shifted from the plaintiff to the defendant.
By just having a patent, essentially in saying that we violated our patent, it now puts the burden of proof on us to prove that we did not.
It's the oddest thing in the world.
Basically, all they did when they filed their complaint was send us the patent.
They sent us a 50-page single-spaced document and said, you figure it out.
We're saying you violated.
We're like, we don't even know what this is.
We've still to this day – this patent was granted in 1996 for an idea to syndicate magazine articles online, literally books on tape applied to magazine articles distributed to the internet.
He got a patent on that, okay, 1996.
Then comes 2000, and that company didn't work, right?
So then 2000 rolls through.
The internet grows.
Content grows.
And he sits back and goes, hmm, there's podcasting, and the networks are retasking content on the internet.
Maybe I can make this patent apply to that.
So he applies to what's called a sub-patent in 2009.
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