Apple iPod Patent Lawsuit on Horizon

Apple could be in for a big legal fight with competitor Creative over the navigation technology used in iPod music players.

Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo plans to pursue aggressively a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players.

Mr Sim was speaking at the launch of Creative’s latest competitor to Apple’s iPod video, the Zen Vision: M. Creative is placing the Zen as a far more powerful player than Apple’s offering, with additional functions such as FM radio and built-in mic.

Creative was one of the first to market digital music players in 2000 but lost the leadership to Apple.

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This threat is one more to Apple’s ever increasing iPod woes.