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Selling low-energy long-life commercial lamps has become a serious business, as Cort Cary - who runs Green Energy Management LLC out of his Westmoreland, N.H., home - has found out the hard way.
On June 18, the lighting giant Osram Sylvania Inc. - a Germany-based firm with more than 1,700 employees in New Hampshire alone - filed suit in U.S. District Court in Concord claiming that Green Energy Management's sale of "electrodeless" lamps violates the company's patents.
Osram Sylvania quickly announced the suit the day after it was filed, using Cary's firm as an example.
"This is the first action in the United States in our campaign to enforce Osram Sylvania's patents for the Icetron induction lighting system," said Peter Lawler, head of Osram Sylvania's Low Pressure Discharge business unit. "Osram Sylvania is committed to enforcing its intellectual property rights in the United States...