Caterpillar Settles Deere Patent Case After Judge Amplified Loss

Caterpillar Inc. settled a legal clash in which it had been found to infringe Deere & Co.’s patented road-milling technology, three weeks after a federal judge increased to $19.5 million the damages from a February trial and blocked sales of infringing machines.

Deere’s Wirtgen America Inc. unit and Caterpillar reached a deal resolving “all issues between them” in the case, “subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement,” according to a stipulation and order of dismissal approved Wednesday by Judge Joshua D. Wolson in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. The pact doesn’t allow either party ...