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Set Nike+iPod Sport Kit became a subject of a judicial claim

February 07, 2007
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Moldova.ORG --Company PhatRat Technology which is based and American state Colorado, has write to a Denver court a statement of claim against companies Nike and Apple, proving, that the last illegally use the patented technologies in complete set Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

Let's remind, that complete set Nike+iPod Sport Kit has appeared on sale in the summer the last year, and by the present moment its owners became, at least, 450000 person. Set Nike+iPod Sport Kit includes system for connection sneakers Nike + with iPod. The special receiver which "communicates" with sneakers on the wireless channel is connected to a player. As a result, on the screen of a player appear the information on the passed way, spent time and the spent calories. In iTunes Music Store there is special section Nike Sport Music. Owners Nike+iPod Sport Kit can publish own achievements in sport in an on-line diary on site Nike Plus.

PhatRat, making portable devices (for example, the tiny device airRat, measuring parameters of sports trainings), tracing vital parameters of the owner, demands, that the court has recognized activity Nike and Apple illegal, has obliged the companies to pay indemnifications and to suspend distribution Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

The representative of the claimant has informed, that in the Nike company are informed about the claim and at the moment get acquainted with details of the claim. Apple, as always in similar cases, abstains from comments, informs Bloomberg.