Judge Dismisses Man’s Suit Over Alleged Invention To Limit Oil Spill’s Spread

Mealey's (December 5, 2018, 11:59 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana on Nov. 30 dismissed a man’s lawsuit claiming that BP Exploration & Production Inc., BP America Production Co. and CB&I Group Inc. were unjustly enriched by their use of his invention to prevent the flow of oil from the Macondo well in the  Gulf of Mexico into marshes, explaining that the plaintiff did not sufficiently describe the device he invented (Barry J. Badeaux v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al., No. 18-6606, E.D. La., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 203223)....