HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., June 23, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STAR EnviroTech, Inc., the inventor of Diagnostic Smoke® automotive leak detection technology, has won the final US patent challenge by competitor Redline Detection, LLC. STAR’s exclusive technologies are used globally by all major OEMs and the automotive aftermarket.
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In a precedent-setting 33-page opinion1, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals fully upheld STAR's "nitrogen smoke" patent. STAR EnviroTech has also won every previous US patent challenge by Redline Detection. More than twenty STAR patents remain unchallenged.
STAR’s technologies are available in 125 countries from world-leading tool manufacturers and distributors and have sold more than all competitors’ products combined. STAR invented the standard-setting technologies for safer fuel evaporative emissions (EVAP) leak testing.
"This latest victory and five prior patent challenge wins, reaffirms that neither Redline Detection nor its customers can use our patented 'nitrogen smoke', or 'smoke dye' technologies”, said Jim Saffie, STAR EnviroTech CEO. “We’ve worked hard to secure our U.S. and international patents. We invented these technologies and we have an ethical obligation to our distribution partners to guard those patents. They’ve made an investment in us and our technologies. We will protect those investments.”
About STAR EnviroTech
STAR EnviroTech worked in collaboration with partners including Ford, GM and Chrysler, through the OEMs’ USCAR organization, to develop a universally-accepted, and in most cases mandated, EVAP and vacuum system leak detection technology, chosen by virtually every OEM.
STAR's continued collaboration with virtually every OEM brand and relevant government regulatory agencies keeps STAR's technology in the forefront. This allows the company to continually evolve its methods and designs to meet the needs of future vehicle models.
Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, STAR EnviroTech, a privately-held corporation, develops award-winning, industry-standard technologies for leak testing in EVAP, vacuum/induction, turbo, and other vehicle and non-vehicle systems. Its patented technologies are available in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America.
STAR technologies are inside smoke machines from leading tool manufacturers supplying the automotive, truck, industrial, marine, and aviation industries, including the Canadian Air Force and the U.S. Military.
For more about STAR EnviroTech, go to: http://www.StarEnviroTech.com
1 Redline Detection, LLC V. STAR EnviroTech, Inc. [opinion] Appeal Number: 15-1047.