March 13, 2008
That funny thing you smell? It’s another lawsuit in the works.
Posted Mar. 13, ’08, 12:53 PM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Legal
Does something seem…wrong to you? For the past few weeks, there’s been this hollow feeling that an indefinable something was missing. Not anymore. Atlanta-based ZapMedia Services Inc. filed a lawsuit against Apple in U.S. district court for the eastern district of Texas today and suddenly, all’s right with the world again.
ZapMedia is all riled up because Apple refused to license their technology for using the Internet as a distribution channel for content. They applied for two patents in 1999, one of which was granted in March 2006, the other on the eleventh of this month (yes, this past Tuesday).
They claim that Apple’s iTunes Store is violating their patents and Apple should come clean and pony up royalties on sales of iPods and iTunes Store content to them.
Robert Frohwein, the general counsel for ZapMedia, said, “When someone takes our vision and our intellectual property without a license after several attempts, we have no option but to protect it through every means available to us.” Oh Apple, shame on your for mistreating this poor little company of such high idealistic values! How could you do this to them? Think of the children.
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Yeah I was wondering when some worthless entity would bring another lawsuit against Apple. It's been awhile now, they are about due...
Any word on the Zune lawsuit they'll file? Oh, did they even file one???
How about a bit of prior art with the Newton and Palm that both used the internet to distribute media (books,images and software qualify as media) and synchronized those between the computer and PDA.