{"id":260592,"date":"2010-02-01T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/01\/fusion-garage-files-to-dismiss-crunchpad-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T20:30:12","slug":"fusion-garage-files-to-dismiss-crunchpad-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/260592","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Garage files to dismiss CrunchPad lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It looks like Fusion Garage<\/a> is out to remind people that there’s more than one $499 tablet in the world today: CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan is talking up the Joojoo tablet’s pre-orders<\/a>, and the company’s lawyers have filed a delightfully snippy motion to dismiss TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s lawsuit<\/a> over the device formerly known as CrunchPad<\/a>, saying his claims are “legally barred, facially flawed, and fatally imprecise.” As we predicted from the outset<\/a>, the argument boils down to the fact that there was never any contract between Fusion Garage and Michael Arrington or TechCrunch — and Fusion Garage also points out it can’t have stolen an idea that Arrington posted “all over the Internet.” Snap. It’s a little more complicated than that, though — we’ve broken it down after the break, grab the PDF<\/a> and follow along.<\/p>\n

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