February 01, 2024
Sioux Steel Co. and Prairie Land Millwright Services have settled patent litigation in the wake of an Illinois federal jury's $12 million award for Sioux Steel, which had alleged the farm equipment company infringed its patents on a device used to sweep around grain.
September 08, 2023
A federal judge in Chicago has banned a farm equipment company from selling a kind of device used to sweep around grain that uses a patent-protected pivoting unit — attached to a nearly $12 million jury verdict — but passed on requests to as much as triple the verdict to punish the equipment company for making the case "difficult."
July 11, 2023
An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday that a farm equipment company could look deeper into a rival's potentially fraudulent $10 property transfers, which followed the rival's $12 million patent infringement trial loss, saying she delayed entering judgment as a courtesy but "will be loath" to ever do it again.
February 13, 2023
Sioux Steel is asking a judge to triple the nearly $12 million jury award it won in December in its farm equipment patent suit against rival Prairie Land Millwright Services, saying that Prairie Land "made this case as difficult as they possibly could, demonstrating bad faith at every turn."
December 22, 2022
An Illinois federal jury has awarded manufacturer Sioux Steel nearly $12 million in its patent suit against rival Prairie Land Millwright Services over farming equipment, determining that Prairie willfully infringed the asserted technology.