Legal Opinion
Nova Design Technologies, Ltd. v. Walters
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 28, 2012No. Civil Action No. 10-7618PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
This case arises from an ownership dispute over the technology embodied in United States Patent Number 6,878,157 (the “'157 Patent”), which relates to technology used in heat packs. The plaintiff, Nova Design Technologies, Ltd. (“Nova”), asserts that its founder Andrew Milligan and researcher Jaime Schlorff invented and developed a sandpaper-based trigger for heat packs. Nova asserts that Matthew Walters, Brian Guerra, and Dale Walters (the “individual defendants”) stole the idea from them and used it to apply for and receive the '157 Patent, which they…
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