HIP, INC. v. HORMEL FOODS CORP.

No. 16-3679, No. 16-3872.

888 F.3d 334 (2018)

HIP, INC., fka Unitherm Food Systems, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee v. HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. Bradford , Edward F. Fox , Jeffrey Mulder , BASSFORD & REMELE, Minneapolis, MN, Victoria H. Buter , Thomas Harlan Dahlk , KUTAK & ROCK, Omaha, NE, Jonathan D. Cartledge , J. Christopher Davis , Paul Kingsolver , JOHNSON & JONES, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ted C. Koshiol , Kurt John Niederluecke , Timothy Michael O'Shea , FREDRIKSON & BYRON, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.


Hormel Foods Corporation is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Minnesota that manufactures and markets meat products. In early 2007, Hormel sought an improved method of producing precooked bacon, which it was then producing in continuous commercial microwave ovens and selling into retail and foodservice...

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