Caterpillar to pay Wirtgen $12.9m in damages after patent battle

Reuters and Neil Gerrard

26 February 2024

La fresadora compacta W 150 Fi. A Wirtgen cold milling machine (Photo: Wirtgen)

Deere & Co subsidiary Wirtgen has won around US12.9 million in damages from Caterpillar after a legal dispute over patent rights in road-building technology.

A federal jury in Delaware, US, last week determined that Caterpillar’s road-milling machines had infringed five of six Wirtgen patents.

The jury also found that Caterpillar’s infringement was “wilful”, which could lead to a judge multiplying the damages by up to three times.

Wirtgen launched a lawsuit in 2017…

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