Black & Decker beats Coleman in patent infringement suit against Chinese imports.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996--Late Friday a Federal Court jury in Virginia gave Black & Decker (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BDK BDK Black & Decker (stock symbol) BDK Big Daddy Kane (rapper Juice Crew) BDK Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) BDK (Java) ) its second straight victory involving its highly popular SnakeLight(R) flexible flashlight, this time against The Coleman Company This article is about the Coleman Company, suppliers of recreational equipment. For other uses of the word Coleman, see Coleman (disambiguation) Coleman Company, Inc. is a company that makes camping gear. It was founded by W. C. (NYSE:CLN CLN Clean CLN Community Learning Network CLN Colon CLN Celsion Corporation CLN Class Library for Numbers CLN Credit Linked Note CLN Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (Committee of National Liberation) CLN Corn Lethal Necrosis ). The jury and court found two Black & Decker patents valid and infringed and awarded Black & Decker $3.7 million in damages. After a week-long trial in the fastest Federal Court in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. -- two versions of Coleman's JOB PRO Coil Light flashlight were found to infringe two Black & Decker patents that had just issued in May, 1996; on a third Coleman version, the jury ``hung'', which means that Coleman remains at risk on more than 1 million units (representing $13 million in potential damages) for products that have been imported into the United States, but not yet delivered to retailers. Raymond P. Niro, who represented Black & Decker as trial counsel, expressed total satisfaction with the result: ``This is the second time we hae beaten back an attack on patents covering the ``SnakeLight''(R) product. The jury's imposition of a more than $13 per unit penalty for the infringing imports exceeds Coleman's per unit price. The court's finding of validity, and the size of the damage award, should also make other infringing importers think twice about disregarding United States patents.'' Coleman's product, like that of the other infringers, is imported from China. Black & Decker was represented by Raymond P. Niro, John C. Janka, Raymond P. Niro and David J. Sheikh sheikh or shaykh Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is generally assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders. of the Chicago firm of Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro 312/236-0733. The Coleman Company was represente d by John W. Chestnut and Vasilos D. Dossas of Tilton, Fallon, Lungmus and Chestnut of Chicago 312/456-8000. Black & Decker (U.S.), Inc. v. The Coleman Company, Inc. 96-656-A; United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. for Eastern District of Virginia; (Honorable Timothy S. Ellis, III). CONTACT: Raymond P. Niro, 970/923-3144 or Paul K. Vickrey 312/236-0733 |
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