SAN DIEGO, CA, – March 6, 2008) – e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG), a leading innovator of patented flash memory-related technology and dedicated portable inflight entertainment (IFE) systems announced today that it has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Avid Electronics, Casio America, LG Electronics USA, Nikon, Olympus America, Samsung Electronics America, and Sanyo North America in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Last September, e.Digital filed a similar suit against Vivitar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Syntax-Brillian. In its complaint e.Digital asserts that products made by the listed companies infringe four of the Company’s U.S. patents covering the use of flash memory technology. These patents are part of e.Digital’s Flash-R™ patent portfolio.

The accused products range from digital cameras and camcorders to voice recorders and mobile phones.

The EDIG-portalplayer relationship is well established and portalplayer was an intergral part in the makeup for the ipod. What technology they may have encroached on remains to be seen but chances are Apple is right in the middle of this. Of course, this is just my opinion, but if NOKIA is an infringer as a cell phone maker with a digital camera inside then I don't see why Apple would be any different. Then there is the line of other flash products Apple has dominated the market with for the past 8 years or so.