Cuckoo vs. Lihome Cuchen, Korean Kitchen Tool Companies are facing a patent suit.

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Two Kitchen equipment manufacture companies, Cukoo and Li-home Cuchen, are facing patent infringement lawsuit. 

According to the Korean news article from Busan.com, Cuckoo applied for an injunction claiming that Lihome Cuchen infringed its patent technology. In the filing, two patents which covers safety technologies were used without Cuckoo’s permission and Lihome Cuchen should stop selling and manufacturing immediately.

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Lihome Cuchen refuted its claims right away saying that they already adopted the technologies in 1995. Lihome Cuchen said that their steam emission tech was opened in early 90s and it’s not the same technology as Cukoo’s. Lihome Cuchen added that it has 11 patents covering this steam emission. 

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