Many of the major MP3 player manufacturers around the world are all being sued in a patent infringement suit.

The crazy thing about all of this though is that the company who is filing the lawsuit began it just one day after it acquired the patent. Talk about not wasting any time.

Apple, Samsung, as well as SanDisk have all been sued by the company Texas MP3 Technologies.

This company purchased the US patent from two Korean investors. The patent was purchased on February 15th and without wasting a second the lawsuit was filed on February 16th. So what the exactly does this patent do anyways? The patent has a ridiculously broad claim that it covers portable audio device technology suitable for reproducing MPEG encoded data. The patent also stated that the devices must include inputs, data storage, display, audio output, as well as a processor and battery.

Now if that isn’t about as broad as you can get then I do not know what it as that basically can account for a variety of multimedia devices out there which can play these files.

This lawsuit comes just after a good chunk of change was taken from Microsoft as they were ordered to pay $1.5 billion in a different MP3 patent case. They were sued by Alcatel-Lucent who claimed Microsoft violated patents in the use of its MP3 encoding.

No word on just how much money or what exactly this Texas company is asking for but with the ridiculous patent obviously being purchased for the sole reason of this lawsuit it should be interesting where it goes from here. With the purchase and the fast lawsuit it is likely that it was all pre-meditated.