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April 30, 2008

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Apple sued for patent infringement over something to do with iPods and stuff

Posted Apr. 30, ’08, 10:29 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Legal

iPhone legalThomas Claburn, writing for InformationWeek, brings word of yet another patent infringement lawsuit filed against Apple, this time about how Apple attaches solid state drives in its iPod nano and iPod touch lines (and possibly even the iPhone). It has been filed by law firm Butzel Long on behalf of Henry Milan, in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan.

Mr. Henry’s claim seems to be that the patent rights to the particular method which Apple uses to connect the drive to the connection port, which allows them to easily use the same setup on various devices, belong to him. The patent application in question was filed on 12 November 2004 and granted on 31 January 2006.They’ve tried to get Apple to license “their” technology and haven’t met with any success so far.

Quite frankly, if I were them, I wouldn’t have bothered at all. Then again, if I were them, I probably would’ve looked at better ways to make money than randomly suing giant corporations and hoping to win. I might’ve paid some heed to this whole thing and taken it seriously, if these things didn’t crop up out of nowhere practically every other week. We’ve all heard the story of the boy who cried wolf a little too often, haven’t we?


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