The maker of a "smokeless tobacco accessory" says another company copied its idea and design.
Diptops holds the patent on a product described as "a device for receiving saliva expectorated by a tobacco chewer" and says that Novelty, Inc. has infringed on its patent. According to the complaint, inventor Brian Goodell met Novelty representatives at a trade show and followed up with licensing and distribution discussions.
Novelty eventually declined to license and distribute Diptop's product but shortly thereafter began selling a similar product using the names "Spit CAN-Vertor" and "Dip Top," the complaint states.
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Maker of a chewing tobacco accessory says design was copied
Lawsuit: Work from Home ads are a scam!
A class action complaint has been filed regarding "Work from Home" ads on the internet, asserting they are deceptive and misleading.
Barbara Ford, the named plaintiff who is described as "elderly, retired and on a fixed income," clicked on an advertisement link located on her AOL homepage pitching a Google 'work at home' opportunity and "reasonably believed" this was a Google offer and did not know that Google had nothing to do with the product being sold by defendant Pacific WebWorks.
Ford agreed to pay $1.97 for the "Google Business Kit" and didn't realize she would also be charged an additional $79.90.
Ford called Pacific WebWorks and informed them that she never authorized the charge and never received her Google Kit. She asked for a refund but was refused. Because Ford was concerned that she would continue to be charged by Pacific WebWorks, she cancelled her credit card.
The complaint asserts violations under the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Automatic Contract Renewal Act, among other things.
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Lawsuit: Baby monitor invades privacy
A man is suing in a class action complaint filed today after he discovered that he could see and hear into neighbors' homes, and vice versa, by way of a common baby monitor.
Wes Denkov says that six months after he purchased the "Summer Day and Night Video Monitor" to monitor his infant son, his next door neighbor and parent of newborn twins informed him that the video and audio from Denkov's monitor was being received on the neighbor's monitor.
According to the complaint, when the neighbor's unit was on a particular channel, Denkov's baby's room was completely visible and all conversation within the room could be heard by the neighbor. The complaint also states that Denkov and his wife would enter the baby's room at all hours of the day and night and his wife would often breast-feed the baby in the room.
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