US market-leading ATV manufacturer Polaris Industries has launched a legal battle against its indigenous rival Arctic Cat over an alleged patent violation in the latter’s Wildcat side-by-side ATV products.
This indictment, filed just before Christmas at the Minnesota US District Court, claims the Wildcat infringes US Patent 8,596,405, officially granted to Polaris by the US Patent Office in early December — following patent applications concerning certain defining features of its own side-by-side ATVs originally made in 2006, with an update in 2010.