According to an AppleInsider report published on Tuesday, Apple Computer's three-year campaign to patent the menu-based software interface for its iPod devices has failed.
The news service revealed that the application, which names Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs and vice president Jeff Robbin, was last month thwarted by an application filed just five months prior to Apple's by inventor John Platt.
Mr Platt's application covers a system or method for generating "playlists for a library collection of media items via selecting a plurality of seed items, at least one of which is an undesirable seed item".
Reports elsewhere in the US media have revealed that Mr Platt is employed by Microsoft as a research scientist, an additional factor which is likely to have put Apple's nose further out of joint.
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