Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 3, 2009 @08:40AM from the first-out-the-gate dept.

bth writes to let us know that Barnes & Noble has been sued by a company called Spring Design, which alleges that the recently announced Nook e-book reader infringes its intellectual property. This isn't a patent troll kind of situation; rather, the claim is misappropriation of trade secrets. Spring Design claims that they have been developing a dual-screen, Android-based e-book reader since 2006, filing patents all the while; and that they showed pretty much everything to Barnes & Noble in the expectation of working together with them to bring their reader to market.

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Ah by WindBourne · 2009-11-03 09:07 · Score: 5, Funny

So the nook is the kindle killer, while Spring is the BN killer. Makes sense to me.
So what good is a hook to a nook, if the nook makes cannot read the future.
They can not do a cookbook on a nook, since they just got the hook. (apologies).

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Re:I'm shocked! by Hognoxious · 2009-11-03 09:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah but Karchofaniz totally pwned Beethoven and all the Bachs. As for Mozart, beh - too many notes.

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