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Gerber Files Patent Claim Against Roland

Lawsuit focuses on signmaking technology.

Lawsuit focuses on signmaking technology.

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Gerber Scientific (South Windsor, CT) has announced that it filed a patent infringement suit last December in Federal District Court in Hartford, CT against Roland DGA Corporation (Irvine, CA), the distribution and sales arm of Roland DG Corporation (Hamamatsu, Japan). Gerber’s patent, which covers equipment and a method for printing and cutting sheet feed material, was issued by the U.S. Patent Office in 1996 and was reconfirmed by the Patent Office in May of 2006.

Gerber is seeking damages of $30 million and an injunction against Roland’s sale of infringing products.

Roland plans to “aggressively contest and pursue all options against” the suit.

“We are aware of Gerber’s suit,” Roland president and CEO Bob Curtis said. “As technological innovators with a vast library of patents, we at Roland have great respect for the rights of intellectual property holders. However, we firmly believe that our integrated inkjet printer/cutters do not infringe on Gerber technology and that the suit has no merit.”
 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

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