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Apple Settles Creative Lawsuit for $100 Million

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-some-money dept.

E IS mC(Square) writes "CNet News reports that `Apple Computer and Creative Technology have agreed to settle their legal dispute over music player patents for $100 million, the companies announced Wednesday. The $100 million, to be paid by Apple, grants Apple a license to a Creative patent for the hierarchical user interface used in that company's Zen music players. The patent covers an interface that lets users navigate through a tree of expanding options, such as selecting an artist, then a particular album by that artist, then a specific song from that album. Creative filed for the patent on Jan. 5, 2001. Apple can get back some of the $100 million payment if Creative is able to secure licensing deals with other MP3 player manufacturers, said Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. "Creative is very fortunate to have been granted this early patent," Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said in a press release.`"

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  1. VLAD FARTED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    christ lockwood.... you stink!!

  2. frist p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WAS frist p0st...

  3. DARPA and the NSA by 911review · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    America's robot army

    In just a few years, US forces will be able to deal out death, not at the squeeze of a trigger or even the push of a button, but with no human intervention whatsoever.
    Many fighting soldiers - those GIs in tin hats who are dying two a day in Iraq - will be replaced by machines backed up by surveillance technology so penetrating and pervasive that it is referred to as "military omniscience".
    Any Americans involved will be less likely to carry rifles than PlayStation-style consoles and monitors that display simulated streetscapes of the kind familiar to players of Grand Theft Auto - and they may be miles from where the killing takes place.
    http://911review.org/news/Military_MATRIX.html



    Paladium NSA CSC corp

    Paladium: technology "that prevent direct access by computer users to data on their own computers ..." 4 WHEREAS, there appears to be significant risk that future Microsoft operating systems will serve to curtail the rights of scholars and the public to Fair Use of copyrighted material, as is suggested by Microsoft's patent for a "Digital Rights Management Operating System" (US Patent #6330670, Dec. 2001)[4], and its development of Palladium[5] and Secure Audio Path[6], which are technologies that prevent direct access by computer users to data on their own computers;
    http://911review.org/Alex/Dyncorp_NSA_CSC.html

  4. freakin' moderators! by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This comment is not off-topic, it is FREAKIN' HILARIOUS!

    Please mod parent, +1 Funny

    --
    Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
  5. Re:All your patents are belong to us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't afford money either man. I mean once I stuck a dollar inside a machine, and only got back four quarters.

  6. Re:Doesnt it sound like... by Orange+Crush · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously people, the Snakes on a Plane jokes are not funny any more. In fact, I don't think they were ever funny.

    Indeed. I've had it with these motherfuckin memes on this motherfuckin website.