"Apple faces patent lawsuit over iPod"

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  Apple faces patent lawsuit over iPod
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  Posted Mar 5, 2005, 3:26 PM ET by Peter Rojas
  Related entries: Portable Audio

  We've admittedly gotten a little obsessed with all the minutiae of
  Apple's various legal actions against bloggers and news sites over
  product leaks, but now it's their turn (again) to be on the receving
  end of the litigation. A Lake Forest, IL-based company called
  Advanced Audio Devices has just filed patent infringement suit
  against them, alleging that the iPod violates their patent for a
  "Music Jukebox". The Chicago Tribune's report on the suit is
  painfully thin on all the juicy details we crave (like what exactly
  it is about the iPod that violates Advanced Audio Device's patent),
  but a quick search of the USPTO's database reveals that AAD were
  indeed granted a patent on July 1st of 2003 for a "music jukebox
  which is configured for storing a music library therein" that
  "includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for
  receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for
  outputting audio signals, and a data storage structure in the
  housing for storing audio signals." (Which sounds like a pretty
  broad patent.) Apple has yet to issue a response.

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