By: Bloomberg
Source: www.nitrobahn.com
Category: Trademark Infringement
On August 29th Thursday, TMC Fuel Injection System LLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia against Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Co. was accused in a lawsuit of infringing a 2008 patent covering a fuel-injection system in its F-150 trucks. TMC claims that Ford started selling vehicles including F-150 which was powered by an EcoBoost engine that used the system after telling the inventor engineer Shou L. Hou that the company had no interest in the technology, according to the complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Philadelphia by TMC Fuel Injection System LLC.
The complaint also asserted that Ford had began the discussions with Hou in December 2004; which was more than two years after an application was filed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the technology, which increases performance but simultaneously reduces fuel consumption by up to 35 percent. TMC described Ford’s action as “willful and deliberate” infringement” and is looking for a halt to any infringement, as well as compensatory and triple damages because it has been “irreparably harmed”. On the other side, Ford’s spokesman for Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford, Todd Nissen said that the company had “only just heard about the lawsuit,” and would refrain from commenting at this point of time.
It was last year when Ford had introduced its first EcoBoost engine for F- Series pickups. The trucks which were equipped with that engine accounted for 42 percent of the model line’s trade sales in the month of July; the company also said that its latest sale statement will be issued on 1 August. Ford’s F-150 also comes with a energy efficient EcoBoost engine. Introduced in 2009, EcoBoost, uses direct fuel injection and turbo charging to increase fuel economy.
source: http://www.nitrobahn.com/news/ford-sued-by-inventor-for-infringing-fuel-injection-patent-in-f-150/a
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