BASF Keeps Its $85 Million Antitrust-Patent Victory on Appeal

BASF Corp. succeeded in defending its $84.6 million antitrust win over a rival maker of pollution reduction products for gas-powered cars that a jury found had unlawfully forced licensees of a patent to buy only its honeycomb carbon filters.

Each of Ingevity Corp.’s “arguments seeks to relitigate factual disputes the jury resolved in BASF’s favor,” wrote Judge Alan D. Lourie of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in an opinion upholding the verdict. But, Lourie added, “we may not second-guess” the US District Court for the District of Delaware jury’s “credibility determinations, the weight of the evidence, ...