Court Issues Preliminary Injunction in Align, OrthoClear Complaints

Align Technology, the inventor of Invisalign, a proprietary method of straightening teeth without wires and brackets, announced that the San Francisco County Superior Court has issued an order for a Stipulated Preliminary Injunction in Align's multiclaim lawsuit against defendants OrthoClear, OrthoClear Holdings and individual defendants and former Align employees Muhammad Ziaullah Chishti, Bao Tran, Peter Riepenhausen, Joe Breeland, Jeff Tunnell, Christopher Kawaja and Charles Wen. The stipulated preliminary injunction extends the terms of a Feb. 18 temporary restraining order against the defendants and, as a result, cancels a March 8 hearing regarding the requests for preliminary injunction.

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