Legal & Institutional

Burton is sued over a helmet patent

2021-07-16T16:16:00

Smith Sports Optics and Koroyd are suing Burton Snowboards in a federal court in Utah, claiming that the WaveCel shock-absorbing material it uses in some of its helmets infringes on a jointly owned U.S. patent. The patented technology, called Koroyd, uses an array of structures that provide crumple zones to ...

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