sentences:  On March 19, 2007, Clifton Mallery and Amnau Karam Eele filed suit against NBC and Tim Kring claiming that the idea for Isaac Mendez, who can paint the future was stolen from a short story, painting and short film that they had produced.The suit was dismissed.On December 11, 2007, the "New York Law Journal" reported on "Mallery v. NBC Universal", quoting from Southern District Judge Denise Cote's opinion that "the line between mere 'ideas' and protected 'expression' is 'famously difficult to fix precisely'", and stating that "Heroes" was not close to infringing.