Baby Bottle Maker Flipsi’s Patent Claim Survives Bid to Dismiss

Baby bottle maker Flipsi Ltd. can proceed with a patent claim against another company that allegedly copied its bottle insert design, a federal judge decided, denying the other company’s motion to dismiss and giving Flipsi time to fix additional contract claims.

Flipsi sued TOMY International Inc. in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging breach of contract and patent infringement on its patented beverage container inserts. According to the complaint, the two companies met in 2016 for a potential collaboration where Flipsi shared information about its designs with TOMY. In 2017, TOMY informed Flipsi that it ...

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