Milacron has announced that it will be defending its designs after it was announced legal action has been taken to prevent the company from selling its Uniloy line of blow-moulded containers as they infringe a family of US patents.
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Mid-America Machining alleges the Uniloy designs infringe its patents, but Milacron believes it is in a confident position.
Global Product Manager for Molds and Tooling Robert Spagnoli said: "Our lightweight container designs are evolved from our own proprietary designs that go back to at least 1992. In our view, this lawsuit by Mid-America simply shows that our lightweight container designs are performing exceptionally well in the marketplace. The key point that seems to be lost on Mid-America, however, is that our product success stems from our own unique proprietary features and is unrelated to the Mid-America patents."
Milacron announced on July 13th 2015 that the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice that the new Uniloy lightweight container design was allowed for issuance as a patent.
Uniloy has a long history of product innovation for the development of complete blow moulding systems, pulling from its broad range of blow molding machinery technologies, including the design and manufacture of blow molds, trimmers, and conveying systems, all backed up with comprehensive technical service support.
