TechCrunch Files Federal Lawsuit, Probably not a Good Time to Buy a JooJoo

Posted 12/11/2009 at 12:57pm | by Bart Salisbury

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Got to like a man who keeps his word, and revs up the entertainment value of technology news at the same time. Michael Arrington, as promised, has filed a lawsuit against Fusion Garage in the Northern District of California Federal Court. And, in a clear tit-for-tat, he’s got as little nice to say about Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan as Rathakrishnan had to say about him.

Arrington’s lawsuit claims “Fraud and Deceit, Misappropriation of Business Ideas, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Unfair Competition and Violations of the Lanham Act.” The suit seeks both damages and an injunction against Fusion Garage’s  marketing the JooJoo, which Arrington says is built on intellectual property that is part his.

Arrington also offers potential JooJoo pre-buyers a warning: Fusion Garage is broke, so any payments you make for a JooJoo will probably be used to defend the lawsuit, not produce you a nifty tablet computer. So beware...beware!

And, as a parting shot, the bio for Rathakrishnan at CrunchBase has been changed to add: “Chanda is also a patent holder in the area of operating systems, possibly for the custom OS that can be found on Fusion Garage’s soon-to-be failure of a tablet named the JooJoo.”

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