Apple is the most valuable company in the world, but we can always say that they won't win for lawsuits. A Michigan woman has sued Apple and Nike for a total value of $ 5.000 billion because he says the two companies stole his concept for a device called "Gym shoe with a disposable digital sensor with sensor" (I guess he had no plans to sell the device under that name) referring to the Apple Watch and the Nike + system.
The plaintiff, named Daisy Washington-Gross and who filed her lawsuit on April 8, claims that she patented her invention 20 years ago, long before Apple and Nike launched their own very similar products. What he asks is 3.000 million from Nike and 2.000 billion from Apple. Daisy says that wrote a letter with his idea Robert Lyden, who was on "Patent and Invention Help," and Thomas Horgan, a secretary.
The concept of the Apple Watch had been around for 20 years, says the plaintiff
As proof that Nike violated her idea, Daisy contributed a link in which it shows that a hole can be cut in a shoe to fit the sensor of the Nike +. As for Apple, Washington says the company did not call him before launching the Apple Watch, a device it says includes a total theft of the sensor part of your patent.
The problem is that there is no record of Washington having made any patents. The reasons can be many and varied. The first thing that comes to mind is that her letter was only a query, as she affirms when she says that «I wanted to see if Nike had a shoe ready for the 1996 Olympics«. A query is not a patent, far from it. Another reason why there is no patent of yours may be that you did not meet all the requirements to carry it out, so it was not granted. And it is that everything seems to indicate that this is an attempted case of patent troll. I'm sorry for her, but I don't think she will accomplish anything.
the only thing I think he's going to do is pay the lawyers.