This story is frankly rather frustrating. The gist of it is two Wisconsin men decided, 28 years after the fact, that PepsiCo illegitimately acquired their idea for bottled water (Pepsi’s Aquafina). The lawsuit stinks because of the numbers. First off this is 28 years after the fact, so IF Pepsi did steal the ideas why did these people not sue sooner? Also Pepsi had a bit of a mixup and missed the court appearance and a more than $1billion dollar judgment was made against them. That is a absolutely absurd amount of money in the first place. Thankfully Pepsi will be able to appeal the process and if they have to pay it’ll most likely be a lot less. Larger companies are willing to make a few million dollar payments in cases like these just to settle the thing…
The other rather stupid aspect of this is that there is a lawsuit such as this in the first place. It is these types of things that are clogging are courts instead of legitimate concerns we have money hungry people grubbing for cash. Its a waste of time and money.
