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Article: Simmons Announces Tempur-Pedic Agrees to Voluntarily Dismiss Patent Infringement Litigation.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Simmons Bedding Company ("Simmons" or the "Company") a leading manufacturer of premium-branded bedding products, announced that Tempur-Pedic Management, Inc. and Tempur-Pedic North America, LLC (collectively, "Tempur-Pedic") have agreed to voluntarily dismiss the patent infringement lawsuit that Tempur-Pedic filed on June 10, 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The suit named 17 mattress manufacturers, including Simmons and its subsidiary, The Simmons Manufacturing Co., LLC (see also Simmons Bedding Company).
The Tempur-Pedic lawsuit alleged that two Simmons products infringed its U.S. Patent No. 7,507,468, titled "Laminated ...