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iTunes UI Leads to Patent Infringement Suit

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AppleInsider reports that Apple may be on the wrong end of an overly-broad software design patent registered 13 Feb 1996 by David C. Contois of eMusicGear.

Contois would like some money please, Apple, else no more iTunes for the music-loving masses. In a statement that seems to undercut Contois' case, his lawyers state that Apple employees "borrowed" ideas from his software in 1995. Once again, the design patent was filed at the start of 1996 (prior-art anyone?).

Expect this one to end in tears, massive legal fees, collection agencies, and the emusicgear.com domain becoming available sometime in 2006.

iTunes UI Leads to Patent Infringement Suit [AppleInsider]


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