TL;DR
- Casetify has responded after fellow case maker Dbrand filed a lawsuit in opposition to it.
- The corporate says it’s investigating the claims of copyright theft.
- The agency additionally asserts that it’s at all times been a “bastion of originality.”
Case maker Dbrand and YouTuber Zack Nelson (JerryRigEverything) lately filed a lawsuit in opposition to Casetify, accusing the rival accent agency of ripping off a line of smartphone circumstances.
Now, Casetify has responded to the lawsuit, telling Android Authority and posting on X that it was investigating the declare in opposition to it. The corporate additionally asserted that it’s “at all times been a bastion of originality,” which makes for awkward studying in gentle of this explicit lawsuit.
Take a look at an excerpt of the corporate’s assertion beneath:
Casetify has at all times been a bastion of originality, and we maintain delight in that. We’re at the moment investigating a copyright allegation in opposition to us. We’ve got instantly eliminated the design in query from all platforms.
The corporate additionally asserted that it was investigating a DDOS assault on its web site that occurred “across the time the allegation surfaced.” Nonetheless, the agency stated that person data was secure and that the web site was again on-line.
Blatantly copied designs uncovered
Dbrand and Nelson accused Casetify of blatantly copying its teardown-themed line of smartphone circumstances. Lending credence to those accusations was the truth that Casetify’s circumstances apparently characteristic easter eggs discovered on Dbrand and Nelson’s circumstances. This implies a duplicate/paste affair with little to no modifications to the unique designs.
We’re nonetheless eager to see how Casetify in the end explains this case of copyright infringement. Was it calculated IP theft green-lit by the corporate at massive? Or will it (maybe unsurprisingly) change into an oversight on the a part of a junior worker?
