Pearson wrote to us with the following: “Pearson follows the highest standards in maintaining and respecting intellectual property rights. At this point of time, the matter is sub-judice and we would not like to comment on it. We have appealed against the temporary injunction. We have complete faith in the judicial system.” Earlier: The Bangalore City Court has restrained Pearson’s Indian arm from using or referring to any outputs from Kaleido, a patent pending student assessment and analytics platform by Bangalore based education startup New Rubric, reports ET. Pearson has been restrained from infringing on New Rubric’s intellectual property ‘in any way’. New Rubric had approached the court in June alleging that Pearson had plagiarised the analysis generated by Kaleido, with evidence from a YouTube video, where a Pearson director was presenting content copied verbatim from Kaleido last October. The company did not seek monetary compensation, however, the case can be appealed in the High Court. Lawsuit against Pearson for incomplete software Pearson has been no stranger to controversy and lawsuits. In April, it was sued, along with Apple, by the Los Angeles School District (for the $1.3 billion program) to pay for software which Pearson created and was supposed to be implemented on Apple’s iPads. However, reports claim that Pearson’s software was not ready before the project started and it had only supplied samples for the same. According to a HuffPost report, Pearson was also seen advertising test scores on Craigslist. Despite the roadblocks, Pearson is selling off its media…
