Thank You & You Too!

If you think, you know the weakness of a stronger person and hence, ready to fight him out, you better know your weakness because the stronger person may just be knowing your weakness already!

This is funny! The 2 products we are talking about is iPod - The leader in MP3 player market, from Apple and Zen - May be the second leader:), from Creative Labs! Basically, iPod has like around 75% market share in US and Zen has like 10%! So, Creative Labs wants to take some profit which it thinks it rightfully owns, out of Apple! Like any other weaker company, not able to fight the leader in the market Creative Labs wants to take the legal, rather the patent route!

Before going to the court, Creative Labs tried to do all possible discussions with Apple on iPod's patent infringements on that of Zen's. Nothing worked out and hence, it just filed the issue on May 15th (accompanied with another trade complaint to stop the import of iPod from China)! What it didn't anticipate is, Apple filed another lawsuit on the same day on some patent infringements by Zen of iPod's! Woooo! This is like saying 'Yeah! I was just waiting for you to file so that I can file too, well on the very same day'

US Patent Lawsuits are sure heating up the whole business environment around!