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  Judge saws off $5.9 million verdict against Sears in wrench patent dispute suit vs Loggerhead

  By Dan Churney | Thursday, Dec 28, 2017 @ 1:19pm

  A Chicago federal judge has thrown a wrench into a jury's $5.9 million verdict for a suburban toolmaker, who alleged retail giant Sears copied his patented design for an implement for removing nuts and bolts, saying Sears deserves a new trial because one of her jury instructions was based on a faulty definition of a tool term made by a prior judge in the five-year-long case.

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