Defense Co. Calls Ex-Partner's Patents Null In Secrets Dispute

By Rae Ann Varona ( September 21, 2023, 3:49 PM EDT) -- Total Quality Systems Inc., a Utah defense contractor suing a former business partner for defamation and misappropriating trade secrets, is urging a federal judge to toss counterclaims that it infringed two of the ex-partner's patents, saying the patents sought to protect ideas and were thus invalid....

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