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What a joke. Like creative invented the iPod interface? Come on, anyone whose been in the industry for more than 5 years knows that the interface was invented in the guys at NeXT computer in 1986 - TWO years before Creative ever existed! It is THE paridigm used by the NeXT OS, i.e. a column of menus that when selected expand out to another column, and another etc. The only reason it comes off different on digital media players is that an obvious thing is to maximize the readability of the menus. No court will award any company claim to that common-sense implementation.
This is just another sorry-arse company trying to take advantage of Apple's success. I stopped buying Creative products 6 years ago when their crappy sounds cards kept hanging my PCs.
I hope Apple's lawyers sue Creative's arse off and force the company to go under. What a joke!
So who owns NeXT's technology and patents on the UI? Right, that would be Apple Computer then wouldn't it? :-)