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    AFC resolves patent dispute with Alflex

    June 1, 2003
    AFC Cable Systems, Inc., New Bedford, Mass., and Alflex Corp., Long Beach, Calif., resolved a dispute over patents covering colored cable. AFC, a subsidiary

    AFC Cable Systems, Inc., New Bedford, Mass., and Alflex Corp., Long Beach, Calif., resolved a dispute over patents covering colored cable. AFC, a subsidiary of Thomas & Betts Corp. (T&B), Memphis, Tenn., has granted Alflex a license to manufacture cable under AFC's colored-cable patents, and Alflex, a subsidiary of Commonwealth Industries, Louisville, Ky., has agreed to recognize AFC's patents as valid and enforceable. The agreement took effect April 7.

    AFC and its subsidiary, WPFY, Inc., had sued Alflex alleging that Alflex HCF cable violated a WPFY patent regarding the application of colored markings on armored cable. AFC also alleged that Alflex had used a trademarked AFC slogan, "It Can't Be Seen If It Isn't Green." AFC and Alflex filed papers in Boston Federal Court stopping all litigation between the companies, according to an AFC statement. Spokespeople from AFC and Alflex said the companies were satisfied with the matter's resolution.

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    Doug Chandler | Senior Staff Writer

    Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

    Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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