Oct. 25, 2010 (Baar, Switzerland) – Pergo, the inventor and leading manufacturer of laminate flooring, filed a patent infringement lawsuit on Oct. 19 in the Düsseldorf Regional Court against German-based Dekor-Kunststoffe GmbH (DKB), a large coated-paper manufacturer. A judicial search order of DKB’s production facilities confirmed that DKB utilizes the technology protected by Pergo’s patents.

This particular patent concerns the manufacture of laminate floors featuring a special scratch protection coating marketed by Pergo under the brand name TitanX™ Advanced Surface Technology. This invention is one of Pergo’s almost 500 pending and issued patents protected around the world.

Pergo has prepared further measures to protect the rights to its extensive patent families, with the goal of developing an active role in marketing special patents to improve the technical standards of laminate flooring.

About Pergo
Pergo is the inventor and world’s leading marketer and manufacturer of high-quality laminate flooring. Pergo was introduced in Europe in the 1980s and is now sold in more than 30 countries throughout the world. Launched in the United States in 1994, Pergo is the market share leader in the laminate flooring category. In 2007 Pergo was acquired by Pfleiderer, AG, a leading manufacturer of engineered wood products, located in Neumarkt, Germany. In this acquisition Pergo merged with Uniboard, Inc to become the largest vertically integrated manufacturer of laminate flooring in North America. Pergo, LLC., is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has manufacturing facilities in Garner, North Carolina and Laval, Canada. Pergo AG is the Management Holding of Pergo AB and Pergo LLC. For more information, visit www.pergo.com or call 1-800-33-PERGO (1-800-337-3746).