SLEEP NO. CORP. v. YOUNG

No. 21-1784.

33 F.4th 1012 (2022)

SLEEP NUMBER CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Steven Jay YOUNG; Carl Hewitt; UDP Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: May 11, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Scott Hansen , Randall J. Pattee , Elizabeth A. Patton , Lukas Dustin Jonathon Toft , Natalie I. Uhlemann , Fox & Rothschild, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Indra Neel Chatterjee , Lucas Dahlin , Goodwin & Procter, Redwood City, CA, William Evans , Goodwin & Procter, Boston, MA, David Leonard Hashmall , Lauren M. Weber , Brandon J. Wheeler , Felhaber & Larson, Minneapolis, MN, William M. Jay , Goodwin & Procter, Washington, DC, James Lin , Goodwin & Procter, San Francisco, CA, Eric Young Su , Goodwin & Procter, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, GRUENDER and KOBES, Circuit Judges.


Sleep Number Corporation sued Steven Young, Carl Hewitt, and UDP Labs, Inc., asserting ownership of the inventions claimed in certain patent applications filed by UDP with the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO"). The district court granted Sleep Number's motion for a preliminary injunction preventing the...

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