Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Another day, another
furious litigant claiming that an Apple product infringes on one of their patents. Today we've got ZapMedia, who's having some fun with a patent granted
Tuesday by claiming that it covers tech used in both the iPod and iTunes. The patent describes a central media server and a "plurality of media player devices" that access the server over various networks -- but it was filed for on September 20th, 2005, which, you'll note, is after the 2003 launch of the iTunes Store. Hmm, not to worry, ZapMedia also says it has a 2006 patent on similar tech -- but a quick search of the USPTO doesn't show any other patents issued to the company. Looks like someone's got a little explaining to do, no?
Disclaimer: Nilay's a lawyer, but he's not your
lawyer, and none of this, particularly the quick USPTO searching part, is legal advice or analysis.Read - ZapMedia lawsuit article
Read - ZapMedia patent issued yesterday ("System and method for distributing media assets to user devices and managing user rights of the media assets")
Read - Google patent search showing ZapMedia's other two filed (but not granted) patents
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