Whirlpool Corp. has filed 40 lawsuits to protect one replacement part: a $50 refrigerator water filter. Using a Texas court known as the venue of choice for people trying to win patent cases, the ...

On February 16th, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) entered a consent judgment and a permanent injunction in a patent infringement case ...

If you’ve ever replaced the water filter in your refrigerator, you know they don’t come cheap. Some cost as much as $60, which means that if you follow directions and change your filter every six ...

A measure of how effectively the filter removed flavor taints, along with the resulting odor taints, that CR added to plain water with minimal intrinsic flavor and odor (the "control" water). The test ...