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Dallas Textile Engineer Gets High-Thread-Count Sheet Patent Fight Tossed

A Dallas textile engineer who owns 10 patents related to the manufacturing of high-thread-count sheets has been fighting a yearslong battle in courtrooms across the country against other manufacturers that he alleged were either infringing his patents or lying about the thread count of their products.

Recently, Dallas attorney Cory Johnson, of counsel with Winstead, secured another victory for Arun Agarwal and his company AAVN when a federal judge in North Carolina on March 28 dismissed competitor Globe Cotyarn’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate all 10 of AAVN’s patents.

Michelle Casady

Michelle Casady is based in Houston and covers litigation and appeals — including trials, breaking news and industry trends — for The Texas Lawbook.

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