Luxpro to countersue Apple

Luxpro says it will countersue Apple for $100 million in damages after the Taiwan-based electronics company won lawsuit filed against it by Apple over the "Super Shuffle", an iPod shuffle knockoff that debuted in March of 2005. According to The Financial Times, the company will file a countersuit for monetary damages related to lost revenues, after the company was successful in pressuring Luxpro to remove the device from CeBIT on the first day. "We plan to sue Apple in a Taiwanese court before the end of the month and demand $100m in compensation for the revenues we have lost due to their abuse of their global power," Wu Fu-chin, Luxpro chairman, told the publication.

The Taiwan-based company raised eyebrows at the CeBIT 2005 technology show in Germany when it launched an MP3 player that looked similar to Apple's previous-generation iPod shuffle.

According to the report, the similarly named media player had almost the same measurements and weight, came in a white plastic casing and had similar buttons on the front. The player drew mixed reviews from the media after the company used a different name to market device.

Later that year, the company unveiled a modified version at Computex 2005 called the MX-585D, which offered a 64X48-resolution OLED display and sported compatibility with three audio formats, including MP3, WMA and WAV.

by MacNN Staff