October 09, 2024
Caterpillar and machinery manufacturer Wirtgen have reached a deal to resolve their legal fight after a Delaware court held that Caterpillar owes about $19.5 million in a patent case over road-milling machines.
September 20, 2024
A Delaware court has held that Caterpillar owes about $19.5 million in a patent case, citing in part the company's "sneaky" decision to domesticate manufacturing after a setback in a related infringement case at the U.S. International Trade Commission, while also finding that Caterpillar is subject to a rare injunction blocking the sale of some of its road construction machines.
August 23, 2024
A Delaware judge has declined to overturn a $12.9 million verdict that Caterpillar was ordered to pay machinery manufacturer Wirtgen for infringing five road-milling machine patents, rejecting Caterpillar's equitable defenses that included the patents are unenforceable because of an unreasonable delay in the patent application process.
February 26, 2024
A federal jury in Delaware has found that Caterpillar owes machinery manufacturer Wirtgen about $12.9 million for infringing five road-milling machine patents, counsel for Wirtgen said.
February 08, 2024
The Second Circuit will consider whether a jury in the Southern District of New York was wrong to decide that the shape of bottles used by the Bulleit bourbon brand is distinctive enough to be protected by trademark law. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
February 06, 2024
A Delaware judge has thrown out damages testimony from an expert put forward by machinery manufacturer Wirtgen a week ahead of its scheduled trial against rival Caterpillar over its road-milling machine patents after finding that the expert wrongly assumed that Wirtgen would be a reluctant licensor.
January 05, 2024
A Delaware federal court has found that Wirtgen and Caterpillar didn't infringe parts of each other's road-milling machine patents, while noting that U.S. International Trade Commission decisions weren't "factual evidence."