Implus Footcare sues seven more companies, alleges patent infringement

Durham’s Implus Footcare has added seven new companies to the list of those it is suing for allegedly violating a patent Implus owns on a massage roller technology. The company has already sued five other companies over claims they had benefitted financially from technology owned by Implus. The latest lawsuits were all filed Oct. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and are nearly identical in nature. All hinge on a patent Implus acquired in 2014 when the company…