While Fusion Garage unveiled an exquisite tablet called JooJoo, the rebranded and modified CrunchPad, Michael Arrington recently announced that “CrunchPad Litigation is Imminent”. This was mentioned while Fusion Garage’s officials announced that TechCrunch didn’t contribute to the value of the product.
The war goes on, with Arrington claiming intellectual property over the device and Chandra Rathakrishnan (Fusion Garage CEO) saying that he can continue the project without TechCrunch. It’s important to mention that Michael Arrington doesn’t have a contract giving him copyright to CrunchPad’s code, so he and his lawyers claim that TechCrunch and Fusion Garage jointly own equal rights to the product.
In case you didn’t know, the CrunchPad trademark was applied for on November 17, the same day Arrington mentions as the moment when Fusion Garage let him know of the split. Strange? We thought so…
We’re not saying that TechCrunch’s guru is not right or anything, but he’s just lacking the legal papers to prove it and till then Fusion Garage is the winner. In case the papers exist, we’re waiting for Arrington (who’s an attorney by the way) to pull them out and use them…
[via engadget]
