On October 4, 2024, the Circuit Court for the County of St. Louis denied MiTek Inc.’s motion for temporary restraining order in an intellectual property case involving an engineered wood product (“EWP”) saw system. MiTek claimed that it owned the intellectual property for the Badger EWP saw that another company, ROGworx, LLC, built. ROGworx and its principals opposed the TRO motion asserting that it was imperative for ROGworx’ business that it display and hold private face-to-face meetings with buyers at the trade show to market its ROGworx Badger EWP saw system and that the ROGworx Badger EWP saw system was functionally different from any intellectual property that MiTek owned.
After argument, the court denied MiTek’s TRO motion. Cosgrove Law Group, LLC represented ROGworx and its principals at this TRO hearing and successfully argued against the TRO.