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No PodBuddy for iPod lovers

Posted by timothy on from the when-patents-suck dept.

dniq writes "It appears that DLO (Digital Lifestyle Outfitters) are using their patent #6,591,085 to keep a PodBuddy, designed by DVForge, a product, competing with DLO's TransPod, off the market. Another example where patents are interfering with innovation and in the end - the end users are suffering the consequences, because far more superior product can't see the light due to dirty tricks of the patent owners :("

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  1. IPOD's aren't MP3 players by Trauma_Hound1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Technically an IPOD isn't an MP3 player, since all audio is encoded to apples codec on the IPOD.

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