Valor Gutter Guards Continues to Defend Patent

LOOMIS, Calif.--()--Today Valor Gutter Guards announced that it has filed new legal action against Gutterglove to defend its products, including the proprietary S-mesh technology for its gutter guards.

In October 2016, Gutterglove, Inc., filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Valor Gutter Guards (Valor) and American Die and Rollforming, Inc. (ADR) of Loomis, Ca. In this patent infringement lawsuit, ADR and Valor have denied any infringement of Gutterglove’s patents and have counterclaimed for non-infringement and invalidity of Gutterglove’s patents.

In June of 2017, Gutterglove filed a second lawsuit against Valor, ADR, and a former Gutterglove employee, Mr. Bill Lasell, who is now a principal at Valor. Gutterglove’s second suit alleges, among other things, that Robert Lenney, the CEO of Gutterglove, is a co-inventor of a patent covering Valor’s S-mesh gutter guard technology. In this lawsuit, Valor, ADR and Mr. Lasell have denied that Mr. Lenney should be listed as a co-inventor of the S-mesh technology, which was developed by the three principals at ADR. Further, ADR has counterclaimed and alleged that in 2013 Robert Lenney took a file belonging to ADR, which contained ADR’s confidential information relating to the S-mesh technology, and then, shortly after taking the file, Lenney fired Bill Lasell from Gutterglove and then attempted to file his own patent application claiming that he was the inventor of the S-mesh design. Mr. Lenney’s patent application was later rejected by the Patent Office.

Furthermore, in October 2017, ADR and Valor have additionally filed claims for invalidity of Gutterglove’s patents before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board of the United States Patent Office (PTAB).

The court filings relating to each of the aforementioned suits can be found at www.pacer.gov The case number of the first lawsuit is: 2:16-cv-02408. The case number of the second lawsuit is: 2:17-CV-01372.

For additional information on the PTAB invalidation proceeding of Gutterglove’s patents, including relevant documents and invalidation arguments, go to https://ptab.uspto.gov/#/login (then individually type in the following proceeding numbers where “AIA Review Number” is indicated in the “Search PTAB” box: “2018-00015”, “2018-00030” or “2018-00031”. then Check “I’m not a robot,” then Click “search.”

Contacts

for Valor Gutter Guards
Bill Lasell, 916-804-7760
billlasell@yahoo.com

Contacts

for Valor Gutter Guards
Bill Lasell, 916-804-7760
billlasell@yahoo.com