Premier International alleges Apple iTunes breaches patents

The Inquirer reports that Illinois firm, Premier International, is suing Apple for claimed breaches of two of the company’s patents. “Premier took action in a Texas district court earlier this month alleging that Apple breached its patent numbers 6,243,725 and 6,763,345. These patents, claimed Premier, have been incorporated into iPod, iTunes and PC product lines. The first of the patents is a list building system granted in June 2001 for building an inventory of audio, musical, and audio visual works. The second is also for a list building system, granted on July 13th 2004.”

Full article here.

United States Patent #6,243,725 here.
United States Patent #6,763,345 here.

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37 Comments

  1. You know what, Apple was here first you losers! How can you sue a company that has been doing it for at least 10 years longer that you have, Who invented and/or innovated damn near everything about the computer; hardware, software and GUI interface. What f*cking nerve.
    Who the hell ever heard of ______ before, I won’t give them the satisfaction of naming them! Go back to obscurity, scumbags.

  2. Absolutely the company in the news article is about an attempt to grab more of the media attention away from Apple and hoping to gain notoriety.

    Not that I agree with such practice, but in a business world where it really is dog eat dog you take any opportunity that arises to garner more exposure – any news is good news no matter how bad it really is.

  3. Yeah, *obviously* no prior art here… I mean, not like we’ve been building lists of this stuff with Winamp or anything similar since the late 90s.

    MW: Held. As in: if I held patents, I wouldn’t be this patently retarded about what they are and how I use them.

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