Creative throws down the gauntlet

Hawhaw! I vill slap you with my glove, and we vill duel to ze death: “Apple tried to claim invention, but this patent dispels that,” said Craig McHugh, president of Creative Labs, a Milpitas-based subsidiary. “We are going to look at all the alternatives that the patent provides. We can look at legal remedies.” — Apple’s iPod may face new patent challenge

• 31 Aug 2005

• Thinking