In another effort to enforce its intellectual property rights and protect its years of research and development in inventing “the world’s first patented technical athletic performance fabric bed sheets and sleepwear,” SHEEX Inc. has filed patent infringement lawsuits seeking relief against Cocona, Inc., and E&E Co. Ltd. The two lawsuits were filed on November 12, 2014, in the U.S. Federal District Court in Wilmington, Delaware.
In the lawsuits, SHEEX alleges that Cocona’s “Sleep 37.5 Sheets” and “Sleep Number Comfort Dry Sheets” and E&E’s “Protech Performance” and “Protech Plus” infringe two SHEEX patents: U.S. Patent No. 8,402,580 (“the ’580 patent”), issued on March 26, 2013, entitled “Fabric System,” and U.S. Patent No. 8,566,982 (“the ’982 patent”), issued on October 28, 2013, also entitled “Fabric System.”
Previously, SHEEX filed a lawsuit on November 7, 2014, in the U.S. Federal District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, against BedGear, LLC (BedGear). That suit alleges that BedGear’s “Dri-Tec Performance Sheets” also infringe these same two patents.
The inventions in these patents solved the technological challenges SHEEX faced by designing bed sheets made of high performance knit fabric, said the company. SHEEX uses its patented inventions in SHEEX performance sleep products. All three lawsuits allege these companies (BedGear, Cocona and E&E) are willfully infringing, disregarding and not respecting intellectual property rights of SHEEX.
“As you can see, we are very serious about vigorously protecting our patents,” Michelle Marciniak, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of SHEEX said. “We take great pride in having invented, developed and patented our performance sleep bedding technology and will continue to fight to protect the integrity of our brand patents.”
SHEEX is represented in the lawsuit by Fish & Richardson P.C.
