Houweling’s has settled its patent infringement lawsuit against Little Leaf Farms, LLC, of Devens, Massachusetts. In the lawsuit, Houweling’s alleged that Little Leaf infringed Houweling’s U.S. Patent No. 8,707,617, titled “Greenhouse and Forced Greenhouse Climate Control System and Method.” Little Leaf farms admitted that the asserted Houweling’s patent is valid and has agreed to pay Houweling’s a royalty for Little Leaf’s use of Houweling’s patented greenhouse technology.
Houweling’s has developed many novel advancements in greenhouse technologies and has invested considerable time and resources into ensuring that Houweling’s remains on the forefront of greenhouse development and crop production. To this end, Houweling’s has obtained patent protection for its novel greenhouses and, air/gas distribution systems. Throughout the years, Houweling’s has continually enforced its patent rights against infringers attempting to misappropriate or otherwise “piggyback” on Houweling’s protected technology.
Company chairman, Casey Houweling commented; “The development of these proprietary technologies, comes with high risk and capital investment. Upon securing the patents and believing these technological advancements are significant to our industry, we made them available through a reasonable royalty structure. This provides an avenue for others to gain access to the technology, while providing an opportunity to recover a portion of the development costs.”
Houweling’s intends to continue to enforce its patent rights against any and all infringers, in both the United States of America, as well as in foreign jurisdictions such as Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Canada and Mexico. Houweling’s will also vigorously defend any challenges to its patents worldwide and will exhaust all avenues of appeal against such challenges.
For more information:
Houweling's Tomatoes
645 West Laguna Rd.
Camarillo, CA, 93012
T: 805.271.5105
F: 805.271.5107
www.houwelings.com
Announcements
Vacancies
"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 - yesterday
Top 5 - last week
Top 5 - last month
- "Vertical solar panels under the gutter can provide significant savings in plastic greenhouses"
- The differences between greenhouse growers in US and Canada
- German grower reduces moisture in slabs with Spacer
- Half the labor if tomato grows upside down?
- China: Abundance of crops grow in arid Xinjiang desert
Receive the daily newsletter in your email for free | Click here
Other news in this sector:
- 2023-05-29 "Scandinavian organic greenhouse vegetable growers are switching back to conventional"
- 2023-05-29 France: AlgaEnergy’s agricultural business to be acquired by De Sangosse
- 2023-05-26 GroupDC acquires Hawita
- 2023-05-26 Sydney cafe receives much criticism for AU$10.90 side dish of avocado
- 2023-05-26 Eric Labbate, founder of Climate Control Systems, retires after 38 years
- 2023-05-26 US: Local Bounti appoints Anna Fabrega as CEO
- 2023-05-25 Greenyard to serve 100% pure-plant gelato
- 2023-05-25 Nigerian tech enthusiast invents system to preserve tomatoes
- 2023-05-25 US: Cutting utility costs by 50% while co-generating electricity and hot water
- 2023-05-25 CAN (ON): Josh MacIntyre joins Royal Brinkman as Sales Manager
- 2023-05-25 Shawn W. Semones joins NewLeaf Symbiotics as CTO
- 2023-05-25 US (VA): Babylon Micro-Farms receives investment from Virginia Venture Partners
- 2023-05-24 Green Simplicity joins GreenV
- 2023-05-24 "We now generate 80 percent of our sales through greenhouse production"
- 2023-05-24 Italian greenhouse growers launch new premium tomato and expansion plans
- 2023-05-23 Photo report: "Markthallen München represents the food and general interest services that are provided here"
- 2023-05-23 "The export market is increasingly coming into the picture for our strawberries"
- 2023-05-23 Canadian greenhouses report record-breaking harvests
- 2023-05-23 New laboratory to research light spectra in tomato plants
- 2023-05-22 Two of Scotland’s longest established fresh produce organisations join forces to create Pease Bay Farms
