Federal-Mogul controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2002
Asbestos liabilities and Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Federal-Mogul’s acquisition of businesses with historical asbestos exposure, including Turner & Newall and Abex-related operations, brought extensive product-liability claims. The company’s provisions for asbestos claims proved inadequate, and the resulting liabilities were a major factor in its Chapter 11 filing. Turner & Newall had been associated with asbestos products and the Armley asbestos disaster in Leeds.
1981
Rejected patent claim involving rubber-curing process
The United States Patent Office rejected Federal-Mogul’s attempt to patent a rubber-curing process based on the Arrhenius equation, reasoning that a natural law or a computer program based on it was not patentable in the claimed form.