Atlanta IP lawyer Sanford Asman isn't happy that CaseRails CEO Erik Dykema won't hand his company's name over to him—in fact, he's filed a trademark lawsuit over it, just as he said he would last month.
Asman believes that CaseRails is infringing his trademark rights to CaseWebs and CaseSpace, two websites that house his own litigation-management software. In fact, Asman believes any Web-based legal software with "case" in its name should be under his purview.
But even worse than having "Case" in his company's name, Dykema made the mistake of daring to discuss the ordeal with Ars Technica. And to Asman, the interview was pure defamation.
In an amended complaint (PDF), Asman maintains Ars' May 22 story about his case led to "numerous (unsuccessful) attempts to infiltrate" his websites, casewebs.com and casespace.com. And there's more:
Defendants Dykema, Zeller, and CaseRails... encouraged that website to publish derogatory comments as to Asman, and such publication did, in fact, take place, whereby, inter alia, (1) Asman was referred to as "Ass man"; (2) one of the readers of the blog apparently registered the domain "sanfordasman.com" and is using it to link to another website (namely, "The Scuzz Feed" which appears under the url, "sanfordasman.com") that Asman does not sponsor or endorse.
Writing "Ass Man" in a comment section isn't just mean talk on the Internet—to Asman, it's legally actionable defamation, and his lawsuit wants Dykema and CaseRails co-founder Kyle Zeller to pay.
[Editor's Comment: This looks like the second Atlanta-based IP lawyer to sue/to have sued EFF - the previous we reported here .]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:34AM
Good news, it looks like Hugh got over being pissed at SN's editors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:52AM
That's not good news. It's all duplicated content previously submitted to an inferior website.
It might be good news if we got some quality, first run submissions.
Piss on the brand x site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:57AM
Where are your submissions? It's easy to sit back and say everything sucks, doesn't meet my standards. What makes you so deserving of special effort?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:37AM
Not a complaint about quality of submissions, just noticing a disturbance in the Force, so to speak. Carry on!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 09 2015, @09:15AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @09:01AM
You should really stop bitching about that, because someone's going to point out that you're an idiot:
Having good submissions is not the same as noticing the ones you've got are all recycled. Think of it this way - I don't need to be a 5 star chef to know undercooked chicken is bad, do I?
Do I need to be a top mechanic to know my gear box shouldn't be making that sound?
So I guess, in short, shut up you great fucking spanner.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Tramii on Tuesday June 09 2015, @04:08PM
I don't need to be a 5 star chef to know undercooked chicken is bad, do I?
The problem is, you see Soylent News as a restaurant when it's really more of a potluck. You don't like the food and complain about it constantly, but you never bring any of your own dishes and just expect to show up and eat for free. You shouldn't complain unless you contribute once in a while. Otherwise, you are just a whining freeloader that everyone will ignore.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:42AM
There is nothing preventing any submitter from offering their work to more than 1 site. I don't read the other site - so I wouldn't know. I am told however, that some of our stories also get repeated on other sites, long after we have already published.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @09:15AM
Except that horse racing publicity one, which was older... speaking of which, where's our sports publicity/"I can't do counting good" story for the day?