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Apple loses patent case to Personal Audio LLC

article published on 9 July, 2011

Apple has been ordered to pay $8 million to Personal Audio LLC after losing a patent case. The patents in question relate to downloadable playlists on the iPod line of music players. In the case, Personal Audio alleged that Apple infringed on two patents. The company demanded $84 million in damages. A jury voted in favor of the patent licensing company, ruling that both patents ... [ read the full article ]

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xnonsuchx

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9. July 2011 @ 21:16

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Cue KB's obligatory anti-Apple rant...

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KillerBug

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10. July 2011 @ 07:18

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I might actually be on apple's side on this one...I really don't know enough about the patents to be sure, but "an audio player that can receive navigable playlists" seems to define just about every media player in history...it is actually a little scary considering that (taken to extremes) this verdict would make it impossible to make open source or free media players.

Apple has clearly stolen technologies in the past...but this patent sounds so vague that it should have never been approved to begin with. Patents like this are killing the industry; no one owns enough patents to make a complete device without violating someone else's patents, and many of the big patent holders don't make anything at all; they just sue other companies for making devices that violate patents like, "Using a screen to display an image" Not all such companies are crooked; I totally agree with the Microsoft Office XML ruling because Microsoft took their code...but I really think patent law should be changed so that it is impossible to hold onto a patent when you are not making or selling any product that uses said patent. I also think ultra-vague patents for ideas that are already in the public domain should not be allowed. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if someone owns the patent to, "Breathing air by using lungs".

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