Ninebot Ltd. must pay Inventist Inc. nearly $865,000 for its self-balancing electric unicycles’ infringement of a utility patent for Inventist’s Solowheel, but a federal jury in Seattle found the products don’t infringe a design patent for the device’s looks.
Jurors deliberated for three and a half hours before awarding Inventist $835,220 in profits the Solowheel lost to sales of infringing Ninebot rivals, and nearly $30,000 more in royalties, according to a verdict issued Thursday in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in the seven-year-old dispute.
Neither Inventist nor Ninebot immediately responded to requests for comment.
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