Gamasonic Seeks Lights Out For Solar Goes Green "Copycat" Solar Powered Light

Gamasonic Ltd. ("Gamasonic"), an Israeli corporation with a place of business in Tel Aviv, filed a patent infringement action on September 30, 2014 against Solar Goes Green, LLC ("Solar"), an Indiana corporation, with a principal place of business in Huntington, Indiana, relating to 7,172,307 (the '307 Patent) directed to a solar powered garden light, which issued on February 6, 2007. All figures from the '307 Patent are reproduced below:

The complaint alleges that Solar was signed as a "drop shipper" by Gamasonic's exclusive U.S. distributor in January 2014. As a drop shipper, Solar did not stock its own inventory but contracted to rely upon Gamasonic's distributor to ship products directly to Solar's customers. Products covered by the '307 Patent and marked with the '307 Patent number were shipped to Solar customers beginning in January 2014.