Griffin Technology, Belkin and DLO in patent dispute

I agree with the comment above. This patent lawsuit crap is beginning to sound like the third grade: I had that thought before you had that thought! Na uh! I had that thought before you were born!! Yes huh! I had that thought when you were sperm!!! Na uh! I'm having a better thought right now and you don't know it!!!! Yes huh! You're thinking how dumb you are!!!!! And there it is in a nutshell people, modern patent lawsuit text.

Patents are usually such a pain in the ass. I don't know how Griffin won their previous suit, but with this one, it seems like either obviousness or prior art should apply. I know I had devices that played a Discman through FM before the iPod was even a twinkle in Steve and Jonathan's eyes.. To say that doing the same thing is somehow novel just by using the dock connector is pretty ridiculous. I wonder if DLO will try suing if Apple comes out with this iPod boombox thingy. That would be kinda comical. There might be prior art there, as well, since I remember a cousin of mine had a boombox where you could detach the tape deck and use it as a Walkman (or whatever the generic term for personal portable tape deck is, since since the thing wasn't a Sony). Man, that thing was cool.

I think a lot of disputed technology patents that were granted by the USPTO have no basis. The only winners are lawyers that get a third cut of any winnings.

I should have gotten that RoadTrip... and NO i'm not BITTER!