Legal Opinion
Krippelz v. Ford Motor Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 28, 2010No. 98 CV 2361PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JAMES B. ZAGEL, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
This is a patent infringement case involving “puddle lamps,” devices installed on vehicles to illuminate the ground beside the automobile. Plaintiff Jacob Krippelz, Sr. (“Krippelz” or “Plaintiff’), the inventor and owner of U.S. Patent No. 5,017,903 (the “ '903 patent”), sued Defendant Ford Motor Company (“Ford” or “Defendant”) for infringement of claim 2 of the patent. In December 2008, a jury found in favor of Plaintiff, awarding him $23,000,000.00 in damages. After a bench trial on the issue, I found Ford’s…
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