February 12, 2026
A Delaware federal judge on Thursday permanently barred a patent attorney from participating in water meter patent prosecutions and barred his company from asserting water meter patent claims against a rival it claims infringed them, saying "serious" sanctions were warranted for a repeat violation of a protective order.
November 06, 2025
A Delaware federal judge has found that a water meter patent owner's lack of an expert has doomed its infringement case on the eve of trial against meter reading tech company Mueller Systems.
August 04, 2025
A Delaware federal judge has sanctioned an attorney and president of a company that sued utility meter reading company Mueller Systems for patent infringement, blocking him from reading any material in the case designated for attorneys' eyes only.