Internet Brands claims against XenForo

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Brogan said:
Again, you don't know the terms of the EULA so you are not in a position to comment on it.
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What I am saying is applicable to all cases. Common contract law. A contract, cannot be easily taken over by a belligerent.
Evidently, you and I discussing this won't lead to any productivity, so let's agree to disagree.
 
ManagerJosh said:
Mike is an American Citizen afaik, thank you -____-;
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Either way, the legalities involved in forcabilty deporting someone to face trial in another country against their will is massive. Too big for IB to even consider.

As for your request for proof, it would be spread over hundreds of legal documents. an Example however. Look at santander the bank. they own abbey national in the UK, yet every uk bank still has to comply with Health and Safety, employment law, banking regulations ect according to the UK law.
 
Maximilian said:
But mhh IB accuse Xenforo to have ripped/re-used code from vb, if the xf team decides to make the sale tomorrow we will able to compare the sources of vb/xf and have proves that IB lie.
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Going by the language of IBs statement " A key test for infringement is a determination as to whether a substantial portion of the underlying work amounts to an expression of the prior work" It appears they may be preparing to base the case on the premise that Kier and Mike are utilising ideas and designs hatched amongst the vBulletin team. From my (admittedly limited) knowledge of cases such as this in the UK, they do not stand up very well. There would have to be very specific design documents etc to have any hope of standing up. The UK legal systems interpretation of this kind of thing is very narrow and specific. Even if the case is heard, it is a strong possibility that XF will simply be told to remove anything which is identical to previously planned work at vB (if that can be proven).
 
Deebs said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law


Btw, I live in Britain. I follow the law and understand it. IB have no chance. They used American Lawyers to try to understand UK law (the basis of their law system).
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Posting an entry to wikipedia isn't exactly helpful. A more precise citing a particular reference and a reference to what section of the law it is called upon would be appreciated.
 
Decado said:
Going by the language of IBs statement " A key test for infringement is a determination as to whether a substantial portion of the underlying work amounts to an expression of the prior work" It appears they may be preparing to base the case on the premise that Kier and Mike are utilising ideas and designs hatched amongst the vBulletin team. From my (admittedly limited) knowledge of cases such as this in the UK, they do not stand up very well. There would have to be very specific design documents etc to have any hope of standing up. The UK legal systems interpretation of this kind of thing is very narrow and specific. Even if the case is heard, it is a strong possibility that XF will simply be told to remove anything which is identical to previously planned work at vB (if that can be proven).
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Well put. In cases like these it will also be upto IB to prove that XF did actually do this, opposed to XF proving they didn't, and the level of detail that would be needed would be absolutely huge.
 
Deebs said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law

Btw, I live in Britain. I follow the law and understand it. IB have no chance. They used American Lawyers to try to understand UK law (the basis of their law system).
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One more thing. British Nationality Law, according to your wikipedia entry, deals with "the law of the United Kingdom concerning citizenship and other categories of British nationality."

That has absolutely nothing to do labor law.
 
This has pissed me off big time

From reading this thread, it looks like IB has no clue what's getting itself into and wanted to prevent xF from its start tomorrow.

If IB lose the case, I do hope Kier, Mike and Ashley make a counter lawsuit against "false accusations" and also force a copyright for any features that xF has, so vB cannot use them in their releases, although I bet they are spying big time as we speak and trying to build features while xF isn't public yet.
 
erich37 said:
looking at the writing-style of the OP, this seems to have been written by a 14-year old kid rather than written by a lawyer :cool:
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That and the thinly veiled threat against would be purchasers really did surprise me but the announcement didn't. I expected it before now. The timing seems to be vindictive which only serves to reinforce the feeling of an outburst from a petulant child.
 
Shamil said:
...hey, what was it again? I don't know what you're talking about!
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We are discussing Inception movie. Looks like IB used subconsciousness espionage to steal few lines with:
<?php
$myString = "How to piss off Bob Brisco!";
echo $myString;
echo "<h5>By becoming a true competitor!</h5>";
?>
 
ManagerJosh said:
One more thing. British Nationality Law, according to your wikipedia entry, deals with "the law of the United Kingdom concerning citizenship and other categories of British nationality."

That has absolutely nothing to do labor law.
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If someone lives in the UK they are protected by our laws....
 
As Mike holds dual nationality, his primary nationality, is what comes first, however, he is a full UK resident, I assume.
 
IB Sucks... i know why this is happening! They already know that Xenforo will take over the market..! When Xenforo is ready to sell copy's i will buy one...!
 
ManagerJosh said:
One more thing. British Nationality Law, according to your wikipedia entry, deals with "the law of the United Kingdom concerning citizenship and other categories of British nationality."

That has absolutely nothing to do labor law.
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It does, the moment you say you live in the UK you are protetected by our laws. That is a simple fact.
 
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