Nutritional lipids company Loders Croklaan USA is set to hit the courts with the news this week that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against US company Natural.
Loders claims that the processes Natural uses to manufacture its dietary nutritional supplement, Tonalin CLA, infringes two Loders Croklaan patents. Loders Croklaan is seeking monetary damages for Natural's infringement of its patents and an injunction prohibiting Natural from infringing its patents in the future.
"These patents are important to Loders Croklaan, and we believe it is important to protect our intellectual property against infringement," said Aat Visser, Loders Croklaan's general manager for Lipid Nutrition.