TL;DR
- Dbrand and Zack Nelson (JerryRigEverything) are suing Casetify for copyright infringement.
- The duo alleges that Casetify blatantly stole the design of their “teardown skins.”
- Nelson has even revealed a YouTube video displaying how Casetify makes use of the identical easter eggs in its instances as those offered by Dbrand.
Case maker Casetify has landed itself in scorching authorized soup. Rival accent maker Dbrand and YouTuber Zack Nelson (JerryRigEverything) have accused Casetify of blatantly copying a line of smartphone instances that have been designed by them in a business collaboration.
Nelson took to YouTube to clarify the alleged design theft by Casetify, and it’s laborious to disregard the proof of wrongdoing introduced in his video. Dbrand and Nelson declare that Casetify copied a line of smartphone instances they co-designed referred to as “teardown skins.” Casetify’s model of those instances is known as “Inside Out.”
As Nelson explains, he’s not the one one who does teardowns and doesn’t personal the thought of DIY repairs. If Casetify did, in actual fact, base its Inside Out instances on teardowns it carried out itself, Nelson and Dbrand wouldn’t have had any points with their method. Nevertheless, it appears Casetify shamelessly borrowed components that have been unique to Dbrand and Nelson’s designs.
The instances that Dbrand and Nelson create embrace easter eggs like textual content that quotes issues Nelson says in his widespread JerryRigEverything movies, Dbrand’s founding date, and extra. Curiously, Casetify’s line of Inside Out instances consists of the identical easter eggs and components, strongly suggesting that the corporate merely copy-pasted the Dbrand and Nelson’s designs.
Casetify stole our merchandise. Now we’re suing them.
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The duo have now filed a multi-million greenback federal lawsuit towards Casetify for copyright infringement. In the meantime, Casetify has already eliminated its Inside Out instances from its web site. There was no official response from the corporate apart from that.