Creative's secret move against the iPod

Creative, as every competitors from Apple on this market suffer of the supremacy of the iPod.
The firme announced they got a US patent defining "a means to select one or many music files on a digital player via a succession of screens organized hierarchically".
As could be expected, they then blamed the iPod for doing the same.
A good bet would be to suppose it won't be long until a judiciary action is taken.
One could have expected a company by the name of "Creative" would use other ways to get market shares.