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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCourt rules vs. BBC on light device.(inventor Nicholas Rodgers wins patent infringement, licensing agreement case against BBC International)
Footwear News, November, 1996 by Boehning, Julie C.
BBC International infringed on a patent and breached its licensing agreement with inventor Nicholas Rodgers when it began selling lighted shoes it contended did not use Rodgers' design, a federal district court ruled. BBC made L.A. Gear's "LA Lights" shoes with the Rodgers' device it had licensed, but when it made lighted shoes for Meldisco, BBC claims some of Rodgers' microcircuits got used by mistake. The judge awarded $5.2 million in damages because BBC knew the patented devices were getting into the wrong shoes.
MADISON, Wis. -- BBC International won't be selling any more lighted footwear manufactured with a module developed by inventor Nicholas Rodgers.
A federal district court recently ruled that BBC infringed on Rodgers' basic lighted shoe patent and...
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