GENERAC POWER SYSTEMS INC. v. Kohler Co.

DECISION AND ORDER

RUDOLPH T. RANDA, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on two separate motions. In commencing this action, Plaintiff Generac Power Systems Inc. (“Generac”) alleges that Defendant Kohler Co. (“Kohler”), a competitor with Generac in the engine-driven electrical generator market, has infringed Generac’s United States Patent No. 7,230,345 (“the '345 patent”). Generac claims that Kohler has been engaging in unfair competition with Generac by selling a line of generators that incorporates the exercise method created by Generac and used in the '345 patent. (Pl.’s Supp.…