Creative apparently decided since it couldn't beat Apple at its own game, it was going to sue the company into submission. Creative asked the US International Trade Commission to halt sales of all iPods and investigate whether Apple infringed on its Singapore-based patent covering Creative Zen multimedia players. Creative says it filed a patent on August 9, 2005, "for its invention of its user interface used by most portable digital media players."
But wait. The iPod had already been on the market for quite a few years by then. WTF? Creative says it owns menus on music players? Weren't there already menus on the iPod and hundreds of other music players by summer, 2005? When, oh when is someone going to do something about the sad and sorry state of copyright law in the US?
5/16/2006
Pattents are a dangerous thing if not filed correctly or at the right time
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I haven't read into it, but it may be that they have a pantent on the click wheel technology, which wasn't around until years later in the iPod development. That being said..I think the clickwheel came out sometime in 2005.
That being said (again), I think it's tres lame in the world of suing. You know what? Suck it up Creative. You lost. Get over it and expend your energy into creating something new. You are the leader in sound cards after all.
Money is what makes the world go round. Creative can get do damage to apple here.
I doubt it will win though.
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