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Bloomberg.com: Shell Oil Must Pay $153.6 Mln Award to Union Carbide

From our archives… Another example of Shell IP theft

Bloomberg.com: Shell Oil Must Pay $153.6 Mln Award to Union Carbide

Posted 17 June 2004

June 16 (Bloomberg) — Shell Oil Co., a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Europe’s second-largest oil company, must pay Dow Chemical Co.’s Union Carbide Corp. $153.6 million in damages for infringing a patent for catalysts, a federal judge ruled.

Chief U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in Wilmington, Delaware, added more than $40 million in interest to an original judgment of about $112 million that was imposed during a 2003 jury trial, according to court papers. read more

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