Summary of the M-Edge Vs. Amazon Lawsuit 61
An anonymous reader writes "According to a lawsuit filed by Kindle accessory maker M-Edge, Amazon is a threatening, deceitful, and interfering big brother figure. M-Edge accuses the Kindle maker of patent infringement, contract interference, false advertising, unfair business practices, and extortion. A summary of the lawsuit and events over the course of the last 3 years paints a very dark picture of Amazon's tactics for crushing competition and stealing the best ideas from its partners. It sounds as though M-Edge may have a very strong case against Amazon, and if it wins we could see Amazon forced to remove its own Kindle accessories from Amazon.com."
Careful now! (Score:4, Insightful)
A summary of the lawsuit and events over the course of the last 3 years paints a very dark picture of Amazon's tactics for crushing competition and stealing the best ideas from its partners.
*emphasis mine*
I'm no expert, but is 'painting a picture' another one of those libel-dodging phrases like 'allegedly'?
patent infringement? (Score:4, Insightful)
they're fucking sleeves.
on the other hand, if they got anything they're claiming that amazon did in the suit in emails, recording or on paper, then amazon is throughly fucked. and another thing, wth was amazon thinking? if they want to alter the contract retroactively to be worse for the vendor than what it is because the vendor is doing good sales then they should just have bought the company, demanding tax on all sales by the company sounds just nasty and it makes no sense that if you got high volume your % to amazon goes up!
on yet another hand, again, they're sleeves and an opportunity product - an accessory for a device to be sold for a limited time and easily copied(which I guess why they patented it, though they might have been better off trying to find some other textile products to produce).
Re:just a question (Score:5, Insightful)
M-Edge agreed to a long term contract rate with Amazon. Amazon decided they didn't like the contract that Amazon had agreed to, so it used illegal coercion to get M-Edge to agree to a new long term contract that was strictly worse than the old contract.
Its not an issue of the amount of the fee but the method at which it was obtained.