Legal Drama involving Automation Direct and AVG Automation

On September 29th, 2010 AVG Automation finally got justice in its five year battle against Automationdirect.com, Inc.
(ADC). In 2005, AVG had sued ADC in Northern District of Illinois, for breach of contract for misappropriating AVG's
confidential intellectual property including engineering schematics, Bills of Materials, firmware and source code. AVG
further alleged that during its contract period with ADC from Sept 1999 to December 2004, ADC engaged in unethical
behavior behind AVG's back the magnitude of which came to light only after the courts forced ADC to reveal its secret
correspondence with its parent Koyo, that instead of fulfilling its obligations under the contract to make its best efforts
to secure a fair and increasing share of market for AVG products, it colluded with Koyo to do the opposite, that instead
of working to get 25% of Operator Interface market for AVG's products as called for as its Prime Directive, a term
inserted in 1999 in the contract by none other than Mr. Tim Hohmann himself, the Company Captain (President) of ADC,
it secretly undermined AVG's efforts to do so, and that starting in 2004, ADC made every attempt to wipe AVG's
Bettendorf plant off the map.
AVG at that point, instead of just caving in, fought back with the launch of its own direct marketing division;
EZAutomation and pursuing all legal remedies available to it.​

Automationdirect, instead of resolving its differences with AVG per the core values it espouses, instead of looking out
for the interests of customers and users of AVG panels , in the next five years mounted a furious attack on AVG by
trying to drown it out through an extremely aggressive legal fight.​

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other unique features of EZTouch such as On-line programming. And last, but not the least, AVG considers it a great​