BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The Toro Company announced today that Exmark Manufacturing Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Toro based in Beatrice, Neb., has settled patent infringement claims it alleged against Ransomes Inc., a subsidiary of Textron Inc. Toro, Exmark and Ransomes are all manufacturers of professional turf care and lawn maintenance equipment.
Exmark filed the suit in September 1999, claiming the mowing deck lift feature of certain Bob-Cat® branded zero-turn riding rotary mowers produced by Ransomes Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,816,033. However, at the time the suit was filed, Ransomes had already redesigned the lift mechanism and is currently manufacturing these Bob-Cat® mowers with this non-infringing lift. Both parties have agreed to settle the matter for $125,600.
Exmark said it initially filed suit as part of Toro's corporate policy to vigorously defend the intellectual and patent rights of its products.
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