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US Customs ordered to produce records Omega needs for on-sale bar defense

By Melissa Ritti ( March 24, 2025, 16:31 GMT | Insight) -- Messy infringement litigation got even messier last week when US Customs and Border Protection was ordered to hand over its importation records for 10 companies covering more than a decade. The information was subpoenaed by Omega Liner Co. as a “last resort” in its effort to establish several Buergofol GmbH-asserted patents are invalid. The German plaintiff was sanctioned last fall by the same South Dakota federal judge for resisting an Omega discovery request on grounds foreign sales can't constitute prior art for purposes of tolling the on-sale bar.US Customs and Border Protection wrongly refused to produce import records sought by patent infringement defendant Omega Liner Co....

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