The fact that the PalmPilot did not hit the market until 1997 proved bad news for plaintiffs who claimed they had given Disney a story line for a feature containing references to the personal organizer two years earlier. A New York judge called the purported 1995 treatment "irrefutable evidence" that the plaintiffs fabricated evidence. The judge, who was particularly upset that the plaintiffs stuck to their story after being caught red-handed, took the rare step of punishing them by dismissing their case.
January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
If only the PalmPilot had existed in 1995, writers Ronnie Niederman and Judith Shangold might still have a federal case that their idea was swiped by the Walt Disney Co.
But the product with that name did not hit the market until 1997 — almost two years after the two plaintiffs claimed they had given Disney a treatment, or basic story line, for a children’s animated theatrical feature that contained several references to the now-ubiquitous hand-held personal organizer.
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