Straight Line Industrial Services Inc. accused competitor Insultherm Inc. of improperly acquiring its trade secrets and interfering with a bid to supply insulation panels to
Insultherm sent SLIS a notice on Oct. 21 stating the panels mentioned in the supplier’s confidential bid to Marathon infringed US Patent No. 10,323,190, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. SLIS said Insultherm sent the notice a day after SLIS submitted its bid.
“Insultherm’s actions were intended to harass and intimidate SLIS, chill SLIS’s competitive offering, and unfairly ...