Patent madness this time against Apple:
These areas include iTunes' menu selection process, the ability of the software to transfer music tracks to a portable music player, and search capabilities such as sorting music tracks by genre, artist and album.
Translated: the guy claims to have patents on how to select menus in iTunes, copying music files to a portable player, and sorting music tracks by genre, artist, and album. Great. Very high level of creativity.
Of course, patent supporters will now have plenty of reasons why this would not be possible in Europe. And they will refer such nonsense as the one above to the realm of fantasy until the cases are actually tried in European courts.
It's amusing when a company that likes to wield the lawsuit club against copied interfaces finds itself on the receiving end of such a lawsuit club. But the matter itself is concerning - what is being done with patents today has nothing to do with the original intention - protecting the inventor from exploitation by powerful companies.