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Indie iPhone Developer Sues Coors for $12.5M
Wired: Gadget Lab — Coors won't be able to drink this problem away. The beer corporation faces a $12.5 million copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Hottrix, a small company that develops "tricks" for mobile devices, which claims Coors copied its iPhone application iBeer. Both Hottrix's  application iBeer and Coors' application iPint display the image of a glass of beer on the iPhone's screen, which is emptied when a user tilts the handset about 90 degrees. Both apps launched in the App Store on July 11 -- the major difference being that iBeer cost $3 and Coors was free. Jason Fisher, a lawyer at Buchalter Nemer ...

iBeer v. iPint: The Beer Battle Lawsuit
TheAppleBlog — [image] When I first got my iPhone 3G, I downloaded many, many, ridiculous novelty apps of questionable utility. To this day, friends still ask to see iPint , a virtual beer glass simulator which allows you to tip the iPhone and pretend to drink a virtual beer (which has now been pulled from the store). The app, little more than a clever Carling (a subsidiary of U.S.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co.) advertising gimmick, also acted as a nice tech demo for the iPhone’s motion sensing capabilities.  At the time, I was aware of the pricier iBeer ($2.99) by Hottrix, but, like many people, I opted for the free iPint. And rightly so, since I deleted ...

iBeer Developer Suing Coors For a Refreshing 12.5 Mil
Top iPhone News — Yet another iPhone related lawsuit only this time it does not involve Apple… shocking isn’t it? Coors beer company is being sued by Hottrix, creators of the strangely popular iBeer app for a cool 12.5 million for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that Coors copied its iPhone application iBeer. Both Hottrix’s App and Coors’ iPint simply create the illusion of beer being poured out when a user tilts the handset as if the user is drinking it. The only major difference between the two apps is that iBeer costs $3 and iPint was free - it has been pulled from the App Store by ...