Whirlpool, Samsung, ‘Kookaburra,’ Casey Anthony: Intellectual Property - Bloomberg

Whirlpool Corp. (WHR), the world’s largest appliance maker, said it won a six-month stay of litigation in a refrigerator-technology patent infringement lawsuit brought in Trenton, New Jersey, by South Korean rival LG Electronics Inc. (066570) The postponement was related “to progress in separate proceedings challenging the validity of LG’s patents” in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Whirlpool, based in Benton Harbor, Michigan, said in an Oct. 7 statement.