igllespierolandoLG Electronics charges Whirlpool with infringing 3 patents.
Posted by igllespierolando on April 29, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - LG Electronics Inc.’s LG Electronics USA Inc. Thursday charged Whirlpool Corp. with infringing three patents owned by LG with refrigerator technology. The needs charges Whirlpool with “wilful and considered infringement,” demands a jury trial, and seeks trebled damages, LG said.
The patents traverse LG’s refrigerator inventions for distilled water dispensing, nourishment storage and obturator technologies. Eleven models of refrigerator-freezers sold under the Whirlpool, Maytag, Amana, KitchenAir and Jenn-Air brands are named in the suit, the public limited company said. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Shares of Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool behind traded $7.36 down, or almost 9%, at $74.84. Katherine Hunt kh/vj COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.
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