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Furniture and patents - a new blog

I mentioned yesterday that I do love a good trademark fight. Womble Carlyle provides us with more trademark and patent fights in the furniture business with its a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://womblefurniturelaw.blogspot.com/"Furniture Law Blog/a . Here is an example:br /div style="text-align: justify;"/divblockquotediv style="text-align: justify;"On November 10, 2008, a set="yes" linkindex="32" href="http://www.comfortresearch.com/"Comfort Research, span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"LLC/span /afiled a patent infringement action against Markos amp; span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"Widly/span, Inc. d/b/a a set="yes" linkindex="33" href="http://www.americanfurniturealliance.com/render.aspx?type=BBF"American Furniture Alliance/a in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Southern Division (1:06-span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"cv/span-1054). Comfort Research alleges that American Furniture Alliance infringes U.S. Patent No. 6,732,391 B2 ("the '391 Patent") entitled "span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"Frameless/span Chair." The '391 Patent covers a span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"frameless/span chair comprising a gas permeable outer liner filled with polyurethane foam pieces. The '391 Patent apparently protects Comfort Research's popular "span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"Fuf/span Chair" shown above. American Furniture Alliance has yet to be served as of the date of this posting. Comfort Research is represented by William Louis King, III of King amp; Partners span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"PLC/span in Holland, MI.br //div/blockquoteBusiness owners, remember this: span style="font-style: italic;"losing your intellectual property rights means losing the business/span. This blog points out how these types of property exists in more than high tech and publishing.

Full post as published by Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).