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  More Lawsuits For Apple Just when you thought everything was good in the world, your product was selling like a veritable hotcake, you can't even keep up with demand, and you're entering the busiest season of the year, BAM! You get rabbit-punched by a patent lawyer. Funny how an iPod can help you so much, but turn around and bite you too. Could the iPod be the teenager of the Apple product line?

Creative Technology Ltd., revealed their own offering for the iPod, errr, I mean digital music player market on Thursday of last week, and later would reveal their plans, during a BBC interview that same day, to pursue a patent infringement case against another manufacturer (Apple).

Does the case hold any water? Interestingly enough, it should be noted that Apple's application for an interface patent for the iPod was rejected the same month that Creative's was accepted. Could it be that Apple was just beat to the punch? Ever notice how you never hear patent disputes over things like the "No-Touch Pooper Scooper" or "Aunt Mabel's Secret Recipe Jam"?   ¶ 15:44