SOCLEAN, INC., MARKETING, SALES PRACTICES AND PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

  1. December 19, 2024

    Philips CPAP Suits Against SoClean Tossed From MDLs

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has tossed two complaints from Philips RS North America against SoClean Inc. from multidistrict litigation stemming from a CPAP machine recall, saying one would disrupt the wrap-up of the MDL surrounding Philips' products, while the other should not have been filed directly into the SoClean MDL.

  2. October 23, 2024

    SoClean Says Philips Can't Stand In For Damaged CPAP Users

    SoClean Inc. asked a Pennsylvania federal court to toss Philips RS North America's proposed class-action claims from a multidistrict litigation, arguing that after settling with customers who had to replace their CPAP and BiPAP breathing machines, Philips was really only coming after SoClean on its own behalf.

  3. October 09, 2024

    Philips Preserves Lanham Act Counterclaim In CPAP Cleaner MDL

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed some counterclaims by Koninklijke Philips NV and its American affiliates against SoClean Inc., whose cleaning products they say are responsible for damage to Philips' CPAP machines.

  4. August 30, 2024

    Philips Accuses SoClean Of Discovery Delay In CPAP Recall

    Koninklijke Philips NV says SoClean Inc. is unduly delaying claims that the company should contribute to Philips' $1 billion settlement over breathing machine foam by insisting on a wall between discovery materials in two related multidistrict litigations.

  5. February 05, 2024

    CPAP Cleaner Co. Says Philips Can't Pin Recall On It

    Cleaning products designed to work with Koninklijke Philips NV's breathing machines were not the direct cause of damages the company suffered when it recalled the products, so SoClean could not be subject to false-advertising claims stemming from statements about "compatibility," it told a Pennsylvania federal court.

  6. January 05, 2024

    Philips Blames SoClean For Breathing Machine Breakdowns

    Koninklijke Philips NV pushed back Friday against SoClean Inc.'s accusation that Philips wrongly blamed SoClean's disinfecting products for a major recall of breathing machines, saying the plaintiff diluted Philips' trademarks by telling consumers its ozone-based cleaner was compatible with the medical devices.

  7. April 27, 2023

    Philips Fights Claims Based On 'Competition' With SoClean

    Koninklijke Philips NV's breathing machines were not in competition with SoClean Inc.'s disinfecting equipment, and so Philips' statements warning customers not to use ozone-based systems like SoClean's were not a basis for claims under the federal Lanham Act, counsel for Philips told a Pennsylvania federal judge Thursday.

  8. December 20, 2022

    Philips Says It Didn't Mislead CPAP Cleaner Co.'s Customers

    Koninklijke Philips NV has asked a Pennsylvania federal court to toss the latest version of SoClean Inc.'s claims that Philips wrongly blamed SoClean's products for accelerating the breakdown of insulating foam in the medical device maker's CPAP breathing machines.

  9. March 28, 2022

    Attys From Two Firms To Co-Lead CPAP Cleaner MDL

    Attorneys from Sharp Law LLP and Mason LLP are set to co-lead multidistrict litigation over the alleged false marketing of cleaners for CPAP breathing machines, a Pennsylvania federal judge ordered.