10 Most Brilliant Ideas that were STOLEN! [Part 1/2 ]

10. The iPhone:


Steve Jobs made a name for himself when he famously stated that Apple has 'always been shameless about stealing great ideas' but did the tech juggernaut steal a Florida man's idea for an 'electronic reading device'?

Apple found themselves in hot water in June 2016 when Thomas S Ross decided to sue Apple for $10 billion,for stealing his idea.According to Ross [not from the Friends TV Series [i do not like it]]
way back in 1992 he had filed a patent for 'Electronic Reading Device',a rectangular hand held device gadget with a screen.Included in the law suit filing are drawings of Ross' original drawings for the Electronic Reading Device and claims that iPhones are remarkably similar to his drawings. Alongside the 10 billion dollar in compensation,he also demands a royalty i.e. 1.5% of all the future Apple sales.Considering that Apple made $200 billion in revenue in 2016 that would mean an extra 2 billion dollars on top of the payout. As of March 2017 the law suit is still on going. 

09. Harry Potter:


Following the world wide success of the first 3 Harry Potter books,did the pressure to make the 4th book even better lead J.K.Rowling to steal some plot ideas?

Well the family of Adrian Jacobs a children's author who died in 1997 seem to think so.In June 2009 they tried to sue J.K.Rowling's publishers Bloomsbury for around $600 million accusing her of plagiarising substantial parts of his work in writing 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'.In a statement Jacobs' family claimed that a scene from the 'Goblet of Fire' was significantly similar to Jacobs book: 'The Adventures of Willy the Wizard:Livid Land' [1987],they said both Willy and Harry needed to solve a task as part of a contest which they achieve in the bathroom assisted by a helper. Rowling criticized the claims as 'not only unfounded but absurd' and that she had never read Jacobs' book. In July 2011 the case was dismissed as a trustee of the estate of Adrian Jacobs failed to meet the deadline for paying the first stage of $1.8 million into court as security for costs.

08.Uber:


Another day, another Uber controversy. The multi-billion dollar transportation corporation network company and its CEO Travis Kalanick just can't keep out of the headlines. But did Kalanick even 'invent' the concept of Uber?! Entrepreneur Kevin Halpern does not think so.

Halpern,the CEO of a similar startup called Celluride,sued Kalanick for an eye-watering $1 billion in 2015. He claimed that he shared his ideas about a GPS and cell phone enabled taxi call-up service with Kalanick in 2006 and that Kalanick stole his ideas and created Uber.
The filing was accompanied by a 12 minute video called 'Grand Theft Uber' which laid out charges of Uber insiders taking Celluride's ideas. As of August 2016,Uber is battling close to 70 law suits in federal courts including Kevin Halpern's which claims that he was the man behind the ground breaking taxi service idea.

07.Jack Daniels:



In June 2016, the makers of Jack Daniel's admitted that a Tennessee slave was behind its legendary whiskey recipe. For 150 years, the credit for young teaching a young Jack Daniel on how to distill was given to Reverend Dan Call,a Lutheran preacher and distiller in Tennessee. However the company admitted that it wasn't Call but his black slave, a man called Nearis Green, who provided him with the expertise.

You see in the mid 19th century distillers were owned by WHITE businessmen but much of the work in the distillers was done by slaves.Green's role in teaching Jack Daniel had been suspected long before but his contribution to the development of American Whiskeys was never recorded and its only rarely acknowledged by the distillery in some tours.As of 2015, the net worth of Jack Daniels is $5.6 billion thanks to the hard work of Nearis Green and his unique recipe.

06.Facebook:


For those of you who haven't seem the film 'The Social Network' you might have missed that Mark Zuckerberg allegedly stole the idea for Facebook from his former college roommate. The 19 year old Mark launched the website as a Harvard Sophomore on Feb 4,2004.Just a week later he was accused by three Harvard seniors, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra of having stolen the idea from them.In 2002 the trio developed a networking site fellow Harvard students could use it calling it HarvardConnection.The project was later renamed ConnectU and was to expand to other schools around the country.So following the release of Facebook,ConnectU sued Facebook saying Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract, copied their idea and illegally used the site's software code while he was working for them as a Harvard student.
The lawsuit was messy and lengthy and for those of you who have seen the film would know that the lawsuit ended in 2008, with Facebook settling Divya and the Winklevoss brothers in a region on $65 million with Facebook's networth in 2010 being around $10 billion.
 


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