Producer of E-Reader Charges Bookseller Misappropriated Trade Secrets for Its Own Competing Device Photo Spring Design's Alex E-reader (left) and Barnes & Noble's Nook. (CBS) (CNET) This story was written by CNET's Ina Fried A... [read full story]
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Back on October 19th, a company called Spring Design introduced an e-reader called Alex. It had two significant features in common with Barnes & Noble's Nook, which was introduced a day later: Both sport a large monochrome...
Spring Design's Alex Reader may look like the Barnes & Noble Nook , but that's where the similarities end. Slightly thicker than the Amazon Kindle, this e-reader features a secondary capacitive touchscreen that's running Google...
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So we followed up with Spring Design to figure out what exactly its relationship with Barnes & Noble had been during the development of the Nook and why the company was suing, and, well, it’s looking like B&N played some dirty...
We’re used to copyright and industrial espionage claims being more like cases of trademark squatting these days, so to find something ostensibly as straightforward as Barnes and Noble’s alleged “copying” of Spring Design’s Alex...
Barnes & Noble unveiled eReader--the Nook, on Oct. 20. The device is expected to debut at the end of November for $259. It has touch-sensitive display, color, allows for wireless downloads via AT&T’s 3G network or Wi-Fi, and...
Could a legal challenge threaten the launch of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader? In a new lawsuit, start-up Spring Design is seeking not only monetary damages from Barnes & Noble, but also is looking to get an injunction barring...
Barnes & Noble’s e-book reader, cutely named the Nook, is now the target of a lawsuit (.pdf) alleging trade-secret theft, filed by a small Fremont company called Spring Design Inc. Interestingly, Spring Design has hired Fenwick...
Finally got the actual lawsuit Spring Design filed in federal court against Barnes & Noble over their dueling e-readers and a little time to look through it. Spring claims that it only shared certain info about its own e-reader...
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...
