Bloomberg reported that Apple was ordered by a federal jury in Eastern Texas to pay $8 million in damages to Personal Audio LLC. Personal Audio, a Texas based patent licensing company, had claimed $84 million in damages for the patent infringement of its audio player that could download a navigable playlist and thereby enable users to skip forward or backward through the downloaded list.

The issue was Apple’s iPod which was launched in the fall of 2001 and features a downloadable playlist from computers. The iPod generated $8.3 billion in revenues last year for Apple (roughly 13% of its revenues). According to the claimant, Apple violated its patents every time a new version [...]

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