Apple settles iTunes software interface lawsuit
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| Specifically, Contois documented 19 interface aspects of the iTunes
| software that it claimed were in direct violation of Contois' patent.
| Those areas included iTunes' menu selection process to allow the user to
| select music to be played, the ability of the software to transfer music
| tracks to a portable music player, and search capabilities such as
| sorting music tracks by their genre, artist and album attributes.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2012
One wonders what makes AmaroK, or Songbird, or Rhythmbox, or GTKPod an
exception. Software patents are preposterous, especially when they are
trivial. Microsoft patenting emoticons? Amazon (Bezos) patenting
recommendations?!?! it's all bound to collapse.
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