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Barnes & Noble sued over Nook e-reader

3 November 2009 13:09 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 2 comments

Spring Design, which recently released its Android-based Alex e-reader, has sued Barnes & Noble over the Nook e-reader, claiming B&N "misappropriated trade secrets" and "violated a non-disclosure agreement surrounding Alex technologies."

The company says it started filing patents for Alex in 2006 and was holding conference calls and meetings with B&N execs beginning in 2009. Alex's feature set was discussed confidentially with those execs under a non-disclosure agreement

Says Eric Kmeic, Sprin Design VP of Sales and Marketing: "Spring Design unfortunately had to take the appropriate action to protect its intellectual property rights. We showed the Alex e-book design to Barnes & Noble in good faith with the intention of working together to provide a superior dual screen e-book to the market."

There is no word on what damages Spring is hoping for or expecting. B&N denied comment.

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KillerBug (Senior Member) 3 November 2009 22:37
They should have waited till the thing made lots of money, then $ued em...hehe. [ + quote]
nintenut (Senior Member) 4 November 2009 2:58
*Originally posted by KillerBug:* They should have waited till the thing made lots of money, then $ued em...hehe. Doing it so early on makes it seem like a more legitimate suit, to me... Waiting it out just makes it look like you're a patent squatter. [ + quote]