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Creative sues iPod

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Dr.Dank
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Creatice mp3's is using iPod to stop all sales in the US over some patent
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San Francisco - Singapore-based digital music hardware company Creative has sued Apple, claiming that the iconic Ipod violates its patents, media reports said Tuesday.

Creative claims that Apple's best-selling gadget violates a patent it was granted in the US in 2005 for its own Zen MP3 player, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. Creative filed the lawsuit in San Francisco District Court.

Creative is seeking an injunction and unspecified damages for what it says is a 'wilful infringement of the Zen patent'.

The lawsuit comes as Apple's Ipod continues to dominate the market for portable music players with some 72 per cent of all sales, according to research group NPD, which estimated Creative's share at less than 10 per cent.

Creative said it had also filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission, asking for an injunction that would stop Apple from selling the Ipod and Ipod Nano in the US.

http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1164454.php/Creative_sues_Apple_in_attempt_to_ban_Ipod
May 16 2006 4:05PM
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hurrisun
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lame
May 16 2006 4:07PM
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Petey.
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who cares....creative is awesome and apple fuckin sucks...end of story
May 16 2006 4:09PM
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n.i.c.k.
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No. Apple is awesome, ipods suck.
May 16 2006 4:12PM
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PooterCrunk69
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they are only sueing because creative sucks and cant make any money, so the only way they can get it is by sueing
May 16 2006 4:24PM
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Jwenz
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Ipods are overated...Apple Computers are sick
May 16 2006 4:32PM
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hartig
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best way to put it
May 16 2006 4:36PM
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AtomicTweaker
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what was the patent infringement
May 16 2006 5:47PM
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Dr.Dank
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no idea but apparently its big
May 16 2006 5:49PM
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Grimace.
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werd
May 16 2006 5:50PM
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ride_switch
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sick, I love creative mp3 players, they're so much better than ipods.
May 16 2006 5:51PM
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Dr.Dank
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i have a creative nomad jukebox or something and its like a brick. Its 30 gb and i use it to break windows.
May 16 2006 5:52PM
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sneather
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for sure ... creative is the way to go
May 16 2006 5:52PM
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steevner
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jeah!! i hope they win, everyone is blinded from other mp3 players by the apple corporation. i have a creative and it kicks ass
May 16 2006 6:13PM
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deathcookie
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i heard microsoft sued them also so they might have to get rid of the wheel
May 16 2006 6:30PM
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Redstar
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Creative designed the wheel...
May 16 2006 6:50PM
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AtomicTweaker
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noooooo...........did they?
May 16 2006 6:51PM
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sherpasrock
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ok so just looking back.... didn't the iPod come out before the 2005 patent of Creative's Zen? and wasnt the iPod in development for a while before that? if so how could Creative sue Apple for a patent of theirs in 2005 for something that came out BEFORE their (Creative's) patent was in effect?
May 16 2006 6:59PM
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SteveStepp
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fuck creative
May 16 2006 7:01PM
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evan25
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i have a mac and i all my music is in itunes could i use a creative with my mac?
May 16 2006 9:51PM
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[fisher]
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Creative M Vision "The I pod Killer"
May 16 2006 10:01PM
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andrewg
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FUCK CREATIVE!
May 16 2006 10:03PM
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3ski6guy0
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thats pretty much true. if they didnt care about the money they would have sued apple right from the start but if somehow they do win this case creative automatically gets all the profits that apple has earned from ipods
May 16 2006 10:06PM
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skibio5
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i'm having a bit of trouble seeing how creative can sue ipod... but ipods are just so easy with itunes and everything, so until theres a better music player to sync with an mp3 player, i'm sticking to the ipod
May 16 2006 10:18PM
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pmills
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that article dosent give much information...

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4326/53/

gives a better idea what is going on

there isn't too much to be afraid of for apple, plus doesnt the ipod play .m4a files?
May 16 2006 10:22PM
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DaysToCome
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i like my ipod
fuck creative
May 16 2006 10:25PM
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skiierman
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Some design the Ipod steals from the Creative design. I saw this one comming a mile away haha. Anyways, who cares because iPods suck balls.
May 16 2006 10:34PM
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pmills
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^ its something about how users acess their music or some shit like that
May 16 2006 10:43PM
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dowalibeast
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creative is going to go bankrupt before they can get enough money to take down steve jobs
May 16 2006 11:16PM
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Snubluck
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Sueing apple is so hot right now.
May 16 2006 11:19PM
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nickmcnutt
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no, fuck sueing people in general.
May 16 2006 11:49PM
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SirFryanator
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I have an ipod and it broke. Hopefully apple will fix it up in their newest version which will probably come out like tomorrow cuz they come out with new ones every half year.
Creative deserves to fuck apple over
May 16 2006 11:53PM
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