Lowe’s Slashes 100-Plus-Page Pool-Cleaner Patent Countersuit

An Atlanta federal court threw out more than half of an inventor’s patent infringement countersuit targeting a swimming pool-pole maker and Lowe’s Companies Inc.

The court struck 70 pages from the 138-page document, including paragraphs that were “reduntant, repetitive, and largely irrelevant"; others that were “totally irrelevant"; and still more about inventor Eric Resh’s patent for a leaf rake, which was issued more than two decades before the pool-pole dispute began, according to an opinion penned by Judge Michael L. Brown of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and issued Monday.

Resh’s California-based company, Resh Inc., ...