

In 2005 Creative beat Apple, whose side you took then? - atirip
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/08/7575/

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pan69
We took Apple's side since these sort of lawsuits are petty. It's the same
reason we now take Samsung's side.

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shimsham
oh look, the wind just changed direction...

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y2kenny
What was the patent? What are the prior art for Creative's patent?

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calciphus
The patent was on the nested menu style of media organization. So that
familiar artist/album/genre drill-down UI that the original iPods had and made
them so famously usable.

I don't know of any direct prior art, since apparently a slightly different
form factor yields patent protection. If I recall, the Creative product was
the first to do this on a mobile device, however it was a familiar media
access technique for a number of players on computers, including Winamp.

