Bobcat files patent lawsuits against Caterpillar over construction machinery tech

South Korean company’s Doosan Bobcat's North American portion has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Caterpillar (CAT) and trader Holt Texas successful aggregate jurisdictions.

Bobcat alleges that Caterpillar’s dozers, excavators, and different instrumentality incorporated features that infringe patents related to instrumentality power and manoeuvrability, reported Reuters.

Legal practice for Doosan Bobcat is being provided by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and The Dacus Firm.

Bobcat began operations successful 1947 arsenic Melroe Manufacturing Company successful North Dakota, US, and was acquired by South Korea-based Doosan successful 2007.

The institution has a beingness successful compact instrumentality manufacturing and attributes wide manufacture adoption of small-format machines to its aboriginal developments.

Bobcat’s merchandise scope includes machinery utilized crossed sectors specified arsenic construction, landscaping, forestry, and agriculture.

A suit filed yesterday (2 December) successful the Texas Eastern District Court involves 5 patents associated with instrumentality technology, peculiarly the skid-steer loader.

In the complaint, Bobcat said that “CAT was a precocious accomplishment to the skid-steer loader market. It did not statesman manufacturing skid-steer loaders until 1999, astir 40 years aft Bobcat created the market."

“Rather than innovate itself, CAT has chosen to instrumentality the innovations of Bobcat to effort to unfairly vie with Bobcat successful the skid-steer and broader compact instrumentality market. This has unluckily been a signifier for CAT."

The institution further alleged “CAT’s usage of truthful galore of Bobcat’s patented technologies is accordant with its signifier and signifier of identifying and emulating the cardinal features successful its competitors’ products.”

Bobcat is requesting monetary damages and is seeking an bid from the commercialized committee to artifact imports of the instrumentality it alleges infringes connected its intelligence property.

In summation to its actions successful the US, it is reported that Bobcat has lodged related complaints against Caterpillar successful a German territory tribunal and astatine the EU's Unified Patent Court.

Meanwhile, Bobcat spokesperson Nadine Erckenbrack told Reuters that the ineligible actions are intended to “protect our patented technologies, support just competition, and safeguard the innovation and craftsmanship that person defined our institution for much than 65 years.”

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