ZDNet: Apple iPod patent should be denied

ZDnet/C|Net is one of the most anti-Apple publication organizations in existance.

Copyrights and Patents are TWO different beasts...

Come on, even as an avid Apple supporter this one seems ridiculous. I can see that from Apple's perspective though, why not try?

If anyone should be able to patent that type of interface, it should be TiVo.

This person knows nothing about patents.

Please do a search for the term 'prior work'.

More anti-Apple FUD from an expected source.

It's not even worth clicking the link, folks.

...seems like Ziff Davis is just another affilate of W " NNNNN" B C ....

Since when do they comment on patents? Are they commenting on Microsoft's patent attempts too? What about Microsoft's business practicies like axing IE for MacOS? ZDNet has forever (since at least 1990) been a Microsoft mouthpiece whether it came to covering alternatives to Windows, competitors to Office and so forth in their various publications.

Anyway, this guy is moronic by claiming Apple should've learned its lesson from the failed copyright suit. That failure was caused by a bad agreement between the companies, not the merits of the claims per se. Lotus successfully won a case against Borland who implemented a different looking but functionally equivalent to 1-2-3's menu setup in Quatro Pro. This agreement was another FAILURE of the Scully era.

Actually the correct term is "prior art"

The original look and feel lawsuits were look and feel bacause there was no clear patent or copyright on the original Macintosh UI.

So this is different. They have many legs to stand on compared to way back when...

I think we have been through this before... anything that is not Apple rah-rah is automatically we automatically label as FUD and Microsoft/Intel/Dell mouthpiece.

Boring...