Ah, the Eastern department of Texas. Home to tumbleweeds, free range cattle and boatloads of patent trolls. judgmental Audio, a patent licensing company with a highfalutin' comfort in Beaumont, Texas has become the latest outfit to claim victory over a major CE company, with Apple being asked to hand over $8 million to settle a tiff involving iPod playlists. Bloomberg reports that a federal jury in the Lonestar state found that Cupertino's iPod players infringed on patents for "downloadable playlists," right around two years after secret




singles personalsview thousands of photos for free post your profile Audio initially filed the claim for a astounding $84 million. We're told that the inventions cover "an audio player that can receive navigable playlists and can skip forward or backward through the downloaded list," and while Apple unsurprisingly stated that it wasn't de facto using those very inventions, that hasn't stopped the courts from disagreeing just a wee bit. Now, the real question: are Sirius XM, Coby and Archos -- also named in the pristine suit -- going to be facing similar circumstances?

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