Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook

Nov 3rd, 2009 - AllThingsD

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Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook

Puzzled by the weird story of the "Alex," the would-be e-reader that looks something like the "Nook," the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won't clear anything up: Spring Design's court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an "implicit promise" and stole its idea for a two-screen device.

Spring sued Barnes & Noble yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., accusing the bookseller of turning its "Alex" design into the Nook. I have embedded a copy of the complaint below, but here's the short version:

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