Creative is pointing its legal guns at Apple and hopes that the U.S. International Trade Commission will issue an injunction against Apple that keeps the company from selling the Ipod portable media player in the U.S. Creative also filed a suit that seeks damages for "willful" patent infringement.
Creative's legal attack and suit against Apple was just a matter of time, as the manufacturer of the "Zen" and "Nomad" series of MP3 players mentioned several times in the past that it would enforce its "Zen" patent. That patent, granted in August of last year, describes a way of automatically organizing digital music collections into categories - and the company claims that Apple's Ipod, Ipod Nano and Ipod Mini infringe on the firm's intellectual property.
