Ecolab Inc. and Kleancheck Systems LLC, announced that they have
resolved a patent infringement lawsuit brought against Diversey, Inc.,
through a license to Diversey to certain U.S. patents covering the
cleaning monitoring techniques invented by Dr. Philip Carling, a leading
authority in infectious disease medicine.
Ecolab and Kleancheck filed the patent infringement lawsuit against
Diversey on August 14, 2012, alleging that the Diversey VeriClean®
fluorescent monitoring system infringed two of Dr. Carling’s U.S.
patents owned by his development company, Kleancheck, and exclusively
licensed to Ecolab. Ecolab offers its own fluorescent cleaning
monitoring system under the DAZO® and EnCompass®
brands. DAZO and EnCompass Monitoring are key components of Ecolab’s
value proposition to help hospitals combat healthcare-associated
infections (HAIs).
All other details of the resolution are confidential.
About Ecolab
A trusted partner at more than one million
customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene
and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital
resources. With 2014 sales of $14 billion and 47,000 associates, Ecolab
delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe
food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use and
improve operational efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare,
energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries
around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com.
Follow us on Twitter @ecolab
or Facebook at facebook.com/ecolab.
(ECL-C)
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150526006170/en/
Copyright Business Wire 2015