I am Getting Sued and Laughing all the Way to the Bakery.
May 8, 2008
So we haven’t even launched and NutshellMail is already getting sued! I know you can’t hear me laughing, unless you are a member of the FBI surveillance team parked outside my building, but I can’t stop. Why you ask? I am being sued by one of my new favorite people-the beautiful, venerable, and zany Jenny Lawson (aka: The Bloggess and co-author of Good Mom/Bad Mom). Below is an excerpt from her email to me:
Hi nutshell guy!
So this weekend I was telling my husband that someone should invent something that would let me consolidate all my email accounts together and was all “God, I’m brilliant” and then I find this and it turns out you’ve already invented my idea. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m suing you for copywrite infringement of an idea I never copywrited (copywrote?) and came up with after you did it already. Also, I’m thinking a new version of your nutshell stuff needs to come out and be like faster or prettier or something, so just remember whose idea that was in case you ever think of doing a version 2.0. Mine, baby.
I’d like a million dollars to drop the lawsuit. Or maybe a slice of pie. Apple, preferably. No ice cream though. I don’t even know why people put ice cream on pie. Seriously, if I see ice cream I’m walking.
Have a nice summer,
Jenny, Bloggess
After asking Jenny if I can post her email on our blog, she told me that she was getting all “blushy” and that I could certainly post her email for a cool million in cash or nothing at all, whichever I choose. Does anyone know of a bakery that sells a million dollar apple pie (ice cream on the side)?
Hmmm, for a million dollars, I’ll build a bakery for you.
Rgds,
Kurt
ps. We need to talk about getting Nutshell Mail demoing at Houston Startup Happy Hour!
If there’s any validity to her argument, then Google, MoviePhone, and PetRock owe me some money!
Now that I think of it, Chris P is onto to something. Henry Ford owes me a few bills for the nights I spent designing the assembly line. And Al Gore owes me some change for the Internet…thats mine too. Oh and Victoria Secrets, I thought of that when i was 13.
Wow. This sounds really familiar. Oddly familiar. And,sadly, we didn’t have the pie option.
The day I was born I was all “This amniotic fluid sucks. I should breathe this ‘air’ stuff.” Now everyone does it. I should have patented it when I had the chance.
How are you guy’s doing? I miss seeing you. Call when you can.
Patty
Bloggess needs to be sued for dissing the ice cream and pie combo!!! ‘Specially since that was MY idea….
Marry me Jenny, I need a rich wife.
No strings attached as I’m gay. We can shop 2gether and you can have all the apple pie you want, i prefer carrot cake….
its a match made in heaven.