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SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY v. PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.

  1. November 08, 2024

    PPG Seeks $23M Fees In Sherwin-Williams Coating IP Suit

    PPG Industries told a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday that Sherwin-Williams should pay it $23 million in attorney fees after the Federal Circuit backed a jury's verdict invalidating five paint coating patents, saying the litigation was "premised on directly contradicting" admissions Sherwin made to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

  2. June 16, 2022

    Sherwin-Williams Denied Do-Over On PPG Can Coating IP Suit

    The Sherwin-Williams Co. can't get a new trial or a judgment overruling a jury's finding that its patents for an aluminum can coating were invalid because PPG Industries invented it first, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled.

  3. April 06, 2022

    Sherwin-Williams Seeks New Trial After Beverage Can IP Loss

    Sherwin-Williams Co. wants a federal court to overturn a jury's ruling or grant it a new trial over whether a PPG Industries can coating came first and invalidated Sherwin's patents, pointing to evidence, if the court had let it be shown to the jury, that would allegedly have torpedoed PPG's defense.

  4. March 08, 2022

    Jury Invalidates Sherwin-Williams Beverage Can Coating IP

    PPG Industries beat a patent infringement lawsuit from Sherwin-Williams Co. over beverage can coatings when a Pittsburgh federal jury found Tuesday that Sherwin's patents shouldn't have been granted because PPG had invented the coating first.

  5. March 01, 2022

    Sherwin-Williams IP Hinges On Old PPG Patent, Jurors Told

    A 29-year-old patent will be key to determining whether PPG Industries copied a Sherwin-Williams Co. can coating that avoided a questionable chemical known as bisphenol A or whether Sherwin-Williams was copying PPG's earlier product, attorneys told a jury in Pittsburgh's federal court Tuesday. 

  6. January 04, 2022

    COVID Woes Delay High-Profile Gilead, Samsung IP Trials

    Two notable intellectual property trials have been postponed amid the latest COVID-19 surge, with a case against Gilead over HIV drug patents now set to head to trial in May and another claiming Samsung infringed a wireless battery charging patent scheduled to go before a jury next month.

  7. January 06, 2021

    Sherwin-Williams Patent Trial Delayed Due To Pandemic

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a February jury trial in a patent suit by Sherwin-Williams against coatings giant PPG, one day after PPG moved for a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  8. November 19, 2020

    Sherwin-Williams Pushes Back On Special Master In IP Suit

    Sherwin-Williams urged a federal judge Wednesday not to block its expert in a patent suit against coatings giant PPG from making an argument that allegedly contradicts what the paint company told the patent office years ago.

  9. November 06, 2020

    Special Master Says Paint Co. Bound By USPTO Admission

    A special master in Sherwin-Williams Co.'s patent suit against PPG Industries Inc. over can coatings has recommended that one of Sherwin's experts be blocked from providing opinions on a prior art reference that contradict admissions the paint company made to the patent office years ago.

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