CODY - C&M Oilfield Rentals, L.L.C., d/b/a C-MOR Energy Services ('C-MOR'), a Wyoming-based oilfield services limited liability company, filed suit on Thursday, March 24th in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas - Houston Division , Civil Action 4:22-cv-00965, against Ensign US Southern Drilling, L.L.C., believed to be a Delaware Limited Liability Company and Ensign Energy Services, Inc., a publicly traded Canada-based drilling and well servicing company.

According to the Complaint, on information and belief, Ensign US Southern Drilling, L.L.C. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canada based Ensign Energy Services, Inc.

C-MOR asserts two causes of action against Ensign: Count I averring patent infringement and claiming Ensign has infringed upon C-MOR's U.S. Patent No. 10,976,016 ('016 Patent) and Count II averring breach of contract. These claims are alleged to have arisen in connection with Ensign's development and/or use of a non-C-MOR lighting system that C-MOR asserts copies the patented Crown Jewel System.

The infringement of C-MOR's '016 Patent is alleged to be a result of Ensign's unauthorized manufacturing, installing, supplying and/or offering to sell or lease of a lighting system on rigs owned or operated by Ensign with a design that is the same as the patented Crown Jewel system. C-MOR asserts the infringement is willful, deliberate, and intentional as Ensign has or has had actual knowledge of the '016 patent as a customer of C-MOR and said infringement causes C-MOR to suffer irreparable harm which can only be remedied by the issuance of an injunction against Ensign. C-MOR further seeks damages to be determined at trial coupled with attorney's fees and costs.

C-MOR further alleges Ensign is in breach of its contractual obligations to C-MOR which stem from Ensign's execution of a number of contracts. C-MOR alleges in the complaint that Ensign agreed not to engage in any business deemed similar to C-MOR's and not to use any Confidential Information or Intellectual Property of C-MOR to develop any product that would directly or indirectly compete with C-MOR.

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