On August 3, 2012, Williams-Pyro filed a lawsuit (available here) against Warren Watts Technology, alleging that Warren Watts infringes Williams-Pyro’s U.S. Patent No. 5,518,075, titled “Fire Extinguisher.” Williams-Pyro claims that Brent Williams, the son of one of the founders of Williams-Pyro, worked for Williams-Pyro and became “intimately familiar with the ’075 Patent and the best selling StoveTop FireStop product.” Brent Williams then, according to the complaint, left Williams-Pyro in 2011 to start his own company, Warren Watts. Warrant Watts “manufactures one product: a stovetop fire suppression product named Auto-Out. Warren Watts’ Auto-Out product is nothing more than a ripoff of Williams-Pyro’s StoveTop FireStop product” and infringes the ’075 patent.
Williams-Pyro seeks, among other things, damages and an injunction.
Williams-Pyro is represented by J. Lyndell Kirkley and B. Dan Berryman, both of Kirkley & Berryman, L.L.P.; and Michael Anderson, of Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP.