Unilin technologies is happy to announce that in cooperation with Bart Beugt and extend the one-panel solution for herringbone flooring to T&G profiles. Tongue and groove profiles are popular in engineered- and solid wood parquet floors which are frequently laid as herringbone patterns.

On March 1, 2019, Flooring Industries Limited SARL (FIL), Unilin’s IP division, filed an Inter Partes Review (IPR) petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), challenging the validity of Innovations4Flooring’s US patent 10,053,868, issued on August 21, 2018. Innovations4Flooring (I4F) asserted this patent on February 28, 2019 against Wellmade Floor Coverings International, Inc., Wellmade Performance Flooring and Costco Wholesale Corporation. 

On January 15, 2019, Unilin division technologies filed three patent infringement actions against multiple companies in Canada alleging infringement of Unilin’s patents on bevel or “v-groove” technology, and also various patents related to Unilin’s locking technology.