Sears and Overstock Ordered to Pay in Patent Infringement
Sears and Overstock will have to pay software development company Droplets Inc. $15 million for patent infringement, a Harrison County, Texas, federal jury decided Friday.
The case began Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas-Marshall Division with U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap presiding, according to a report in the Marshall News-Messenger.
The report said the jury of six men and two women rendered a verdict in favor of Droplets, ordering e-commerce site Overstock to pay Droplets $4 million and Sears to pay $11 million for directly and indirectly infringing on Droplets patents. Droplets was seeking a royalty of $32 million.
