Fusion Garage filed a legal motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who insists that the company ripped off the design for his never-released CrunchPad for its JooJoo tablet PC. In the filing, Fusion Garage describes the legal action between the two entities as the fallout of a failed merger. Arrington originally intended for the CrunchPad to be a cheap, open-source device retailing for around $200. The announcement of the Apple iPad has superheated the tablet PC space lately, with a number of companies planning competing devices.
– Fusion Garage filed a motion on Feb. 1 to dismiss the lawsuit
filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by blogger Michael
Arrington, which alleges that Fusion Garages JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of
Arringtons never-released CrunchPad.

The legal action continues a saga t…