NEWS RELEASE
January 8, 2010
(Westfield, NJ)
Contact:
Ray P. Janeczek
Direct Dial: 908.518.6369 or
rjaneczek@ldlkm.com
Restaurant Technologies, Inc. v. Jersey Shore Chicken, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2009-1176, January 6, 2010. The patent owner RTI had filed two patent infringement actions against customers of our client, Oilmatic Systems, LLC, alleging that the customers were infringing a patent relating to systems for supplying and draining cooking oil. We then filed a declaratory judgment action against RTI on behalf of Oilmatic. We initially sought and obtained a favorable claim construction. Thereafter, in a 50-page opinion, the District Court granted summary judgment, ruling that the Oilmatic system did not infringe any of the seven asserted claims of RTI's patent. On January 6, 2010, a three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed this decision. In a press release issued shortly after the decision, Michael Allora, President of Oilmatic, noted "I am extremely pleased with the successful outcome of this patent infringement suit. The Federal Circuit's decision vindicates the position that we have held all along, that Oilmatic's bulk oil distribution system did not infringe the RTI patent." The Federal Circuit's full decision can be viewed at www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/09-1176.pdf.
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