{"id":3318,"date":"2019-02-23T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2019-02-23T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T09:36:14","slug":"jcb-wins-manitou-injunction-in-patent-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/jcb-wins-manitou-injunction-in-patent-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"JCB wins Manitou injunction in patent battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

JCB has been granted a preliminary injunction against rival telehandler\u00a0maker Mantou in the\u00a0French court to stop producing telehandlers featuring a patented JCB productivity device.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Paris court ruling means that Manitou cannot manufacture, sell or lease telescopic handlers equipped with the patented feature.<\/span><\/p>\n

JCB CEO Graeme Macdonald said: \u201cWe invest many millions of pounds in developing and patenting innovative and sophisticated engineering solutions which benefit our customers all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“We will not tolerate any copying or infringement of our intellectual property rights wherever in the world they occur.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During operation of Loadall telescopic handlers fitted with JCB\u2019s patented Longitudinal Load Moment Control (LLMC) system, sensors monitor the weight being retained on the rear axle. <\/span><\/p>\n

If the sensors detect the rear axle weight is reducing past a pre-set threshold, then the system locks out the hydraulics to prevent further weight being transferred from the rear axle to the front, preventing the machine tipping forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To allow operators to drive continuously without any loss of productivity, JCB has a patented an additional feature on its LLMC system that automatically overrides the device while the machine is moving.<\/span><\/p>\n

This feature prevents JCB\u2019s telehandlers unnecessarily locking out the hydraulics and giving false indications of instability when the machine is simply re-handling or travelling over rough ground. <\/span><\/p>\n

Manitou has been ordered by the court to cease using this feature\u00a0by 13 March.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2IvBMwZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JCB has been granted a preliminary injunction against rival telehandler\u00a0maker Mantou in the\u00a0French court to stop producing telehandlers featuring a patented JCB productivity device. The Paris court ruling means that Manitou cannot manufacture, sell or lease telescopic handlers equipped with the patented feature. JCB CEO Graeme Macdonald said: \u201cWe invest many millions of pounds in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}