Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and politics of technology) news.

In this episode, we discuss how tech companies use patents -- for storytelling and for lawsuits. For the first time in a long time, we did not talk about Trump.

Here are the stories we referenced:

• "Amazon has applied to patent a beehive-like drone tower" via Business Insider
• patents.apievangelist.com
• The History of Pearson

Feedback is welcome. (You should email Kin with it though, not Audrey.)