Jdate, the most popular relationship service in charge of more Jewish hookups compared to a container of Manischewitz, is playing hardball in the dog-eat-dog world of good match-making that is jewish.
Jdate’s parent business, Spark Networks, discreetly filed a lawsuit year that is late last Jswipe, the ‘Tinder for Jews’ dating application, claiming intellectual home throughout the page “J” in the Jewish dating scene (the organization is the branding since the “J-family”).
Additionally, Jdate claims the patent is owned by it on software that “confidentially determines matches and notifies users of shared matches in feelings and passions. ” Jswipe, like Tinder, notifies users whenever their intimate interest ‘swipes right’ on the picture, breaking Jdate’s patent.
Or in other words, Jdate’s snap legal team been able to secure a property that is intellectual wider compared to the Grand Canyon, with possible copyright infringement claims over countless internet dating sites, a lot of which “confidentially” match singles.
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Therefore, why get after Jswipe, particularly, rather than the entire dating scene that is online?
Jdate’s brief that is legal Jswipe makes the truth that online dating sites which brand on their own aided by the “J-family” of names is breaking Jdate’s trademark.
Yet, it is difficult to make the declare that it is because Jswipe makes use of the page “J”. There’s more apps that are jewish begin with the page “J” than New York college closings on Rosh Hashanah. Jcrush, Jwed, Jzoog are only a number of the Jewish dating apps in the marketplace. And, it is maybe perhaps not just dating apps; there’s also the now defunct JVibe, a magazine that is teeny-bop pubescent selected people, that has been founded in the past in 2004. Read More →
