date:Jul 04, 2012
Ethox Chemicals, LLC and James Tannerv.The Coca-Cola Companywas filed in the District of South California, Greenville Division on June 19 2012.
The plaintiffs seek to have their senior research chemist, James Tanner, named as co-inventor of the PEM molecule bis(2-phenoxyethyl)terephthalate on patents filed by Coca-Cola in December 2009.
South Carolina-based Ethox Chemicals (owned by Piedmont Chemical Industries), claims that Tanner conceived of and reduced to practicethe PEM molecule befor