Whirlpool Corporation Wins Stay Motion in Patent Litigation Brought by LG Electronics

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) today announced that it won a stay motion in a refrigerator patent infringement case brought by LG Electronics (LG) due to progress in separate proceedings challenging the validity of LG's patents.   All four of the patents asserted by LG against Whirlpool have been initially rejected as unpatentable on multiple grounds by the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in pending reexamination proceedings.