SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., May 16 (UPI) -- Digital entertainment product company Creative Technologies filed suit in a California federal court Monday against Apple Computer for patent infringement.
The company filed against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking an injunction and increased damages for Apple's willful infringement of Creative's Zen Patent for Apple's iPod, iPod Nano and iPod Mini.
Creative is also seeking a U.S. International Trade Commission injunction against Apple, filing the complaint requesting an investigation of whether Apple had violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 through its importation and sale of iPod products, which they say infringes on their Zen Patent.
According to Creative, the order sought would "prohibit Apple Computer Inc. from engaging in sales, marketing, importation or sale after importation into the United States, or other infringing activities in the United States with regard to the infringing iPod and iPod Nano products."
Creative argues that a patent was issued to them by the United States Patent Office on Aug. 9, 2005, for its invention of the user interface used by portable digital media players such as its Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox MP3 players and that they presented the functioning prototype at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2000.
