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| DATE | 2006-06-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Bad News
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If I understand this correctly this is bad news. Any countersuites that
establish icons and date presentation as unholdable patent grants is
going to crush not Creative Labs, but GNOME and KDE.
Ruben
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Analysts expect things to turn out
bad for Creative Labs
In an interesting turn of events
this week, Apple Computer has filed
yet another countersuit against
Creative Labs. After Creative
launched its lawsuit against Apple
several weeks ago, claiming that
Apple had infringed on patents it
owns in regards to the interface
used in iPods, Apple decided that it
would stand up and fight back,
throwing a countersuit at Creative.
According to Creative, it owns the
rights to the user interface that
iPods use, saying that it had
invented it several years ago for
its Zen line of portable MP3
players. Upon the news, many users
lashed out at Creative, indicating
that Creative had acted as a patent
troll.
The new countersuit from Apple
claims that Creative infringed on
Apple's own patents that involved
displaying of data, editing of
mobile data on a desktop PC and
computer icons. The number of
patents total up to four currently,
and Apple doesn't seem to be holding
back. No information from Apple was
given on whether or not the company
wants to pursue even more
infringement allegations but it this
week, Apple's stock performance has
been improving while Creative has
been suffering.
Creative responded this week to
reporters saying that Creative
already expected Apple to file
countersuits and that Creative has
already allocated the necessary
resources to defend itself from
Apple. Lately, Apple has been in the
courtroom quite often, first with
The Beatle's holding company, Apple
Corps. for ordeals involving iTunes
-- which Apple Computer won. Later,
Apple was seen in court with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation; a
case in which Apple ended up losing
trying to obtain rights to getting
source information from journalists.
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why can't just creative
By fliguy84 on 6/8/2006 8:34:34 PM ,
Rating: 2
Why can't just Creative spend more
money for R&D instead of using it in
a case where they might lose? I like
Creative products very much but I
just can't see why they couldn't
fight with quality products vs
Apple's
RE: why can't just creative
By Wahsapa on 6/8/2006 8:42:58 PM ,
Rating: 2
depends on what you mean by quality
also
r&d wouldnt help creative - an
online music store would.
nobody knows what creative should
do, not even creative. i guess they
arnt that creative.
RE: why can't just creative
By Fenixgoon on 6/8/2006 9:04:43
PM , Rating: 2
creative supports mp3's though -
they don't need a music store to
push any specific format.
but yeah, creative sued aureal out
of existence :(
i hope they do that to apple
though ;)
RE: why can't just creative
By poohbear on 6/8/2006 9:22:20 PM ,
Rating: 2
sueing aureal out of existence didnt
exactly help the sound card market
mate, creative has a monoply over
it. I fail to sue how sueing apple
out of existence (as absurd as that
sounds since apple is much bigger)
would benefit the mp3/music player
market?
RE: why can't just creative
By Tuan Nguyen on 6/8/2006 9:24:29
PM , Rating: 2
Actually, Creative acquired Aureal's
intellectual property and
consequently Aureal was dismantled
-- not sued.
Tuan
I have yet
By Merry on 6/8/2006 9:03:40 PM ,
Rating: 2
To see a MP3 player worthy of
spending £200 on.
Maybe Apple and Creative should
think about making one, rather than
squabling like children.
Until my CD player is perfectly
adequate.
dude
By dude on 6/8/2006 10:02:58 PM ,
Rating: 2
Wow, talk about opening up a can of
worms!
I don't see why Creative would sue
Apple over something as simple as
this. After all, it's been around in
computers for how many years now?
For this, I'm glad Apple counter
sued them.
I was always a fan of Creative,
until they made the SB Live. Boy,
was that card buggy or just had
really bad drivers? And their
software package that comes with
their audio cards suck, not to
mention bloated!
Bill can save the day
By kibets on 6/8/2006 11:09:12 PM ,
Rating: 2
Microsoft is lending a hand and is
trying to rally the anti-iPod troops
into a unified format. Lets hope
Bill will prevail with his superior
WMA format and Plays for Sure DRM
functionality.
I can not stand Jobs, his turtle
neck sweaters or the iPod.
Let the revolution against this evil
company Apple strike hard and cause
great damage to iPod and co.
botimage
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