GM Finalizes Design-Patent Settlement With Aftermarket Seller

A General Motors Co. unit and aftermarket car-parts maker LKQ Corp. have ended an administrative tribunal dispute over the validity of the Detroit automaker’s design patent covering a car fender.

Terms weren’t publicly disclosed in the joint motion to terminate filed Wednesday at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board by LKQ and GM Global Technology Operations LLC.

The parties signaled in July they were nearing a pact, less than two months after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, undid GM’s earlier win at the US Patent and Trademark Office’s board had upheld the ...