The Eastern District of Virginia recently dismissed SawStop’s suit against a number of table-saw and power-tool manufacturers, finding SawStop failed to sufficiently plead its antitrust and “standards conspiracy” claims.

As you may recall from our February 7, 2014 post, SawStop’s complaint alleged that the manufacturers collectively convinced Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (“UL”) not to adopt

As a reminder that standard essential patent issues go beyond information technology, last week SawStop LLC sued manufacturers of table saws alleging that they conspired to convince Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (“UL”) to not adopt SawStop’s patented table saw safety technology into UL standard 987 (Stationary and Fixed Electric Tools) and to adopt a different technology