5th Circ. Sinks Patent Suit Over BP's Deepwater Plunger

By Kurt Orzeck (April 3, 2013, 10:35 PM EDT) -- The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday tossed a complaint filed by a woman who says BP Exploration & Production Inc. misappropriated her patented plunger idea when it stopped the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, ruling she hadn't made any plausible claims....

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