“Texas-based Smart Audio Technologies has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in the Delaware District Court,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“The patent infringement lawsuit concerns Apple’s media players in respect to their ability to ‘modify a play list of a random access player,'” Purcher reports. “Oddly Smart Audio only identifies the iPod nano by name. Yet the most interesting aspect of this case, if there is one, is that Smart Audio’s key exhibit is that of patent assigned to Delco Electronics.”
Purcher reports, “The patent that Apple is allegedly infringing upon is that of patent 6,185,163. This particular patent is duly noted as being assigned to Delco Electronics Corporation regarding a ‘Vehicle audio system having random access player with play list control dated February 6, 2001.'”
More info, including Delco’s patent application illustration, in the full article here.
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Oddly late to the game, on an iPod patent lawsuit from a decade old patent.
Scum sucking trolls don’t have a prayer on this one.
Is Smart Audio the owner of this patent or are they suing on behalf of delco? Maybe they know that Apple is moving into the audio space for vehicles in the future.
“I’m a troll, fol-de-roll…”
There’s gold in them thar hills!
What happened to that headline, MDN? “for with”?
Didn’t we already see a previous filing for this issue last year from this same organization against Apple? As I recall they lost that attempt already. Why again?
Well, now I suppose we have to start looking for who has the patent for re-ordering a playlist on an airplane, on bicycles, trains, buses, boats, space shuttles, kites, mopeds, roller skates, big wheels, skateboards, eh…I’ll stop there.
Haven’t enough people claimed the idea of manipulating data as it applies to organizing music. This is nothing more than displaying fields in a database. Sheesh.
Is anybody checking post titles for grammatical sense?:
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