A federal jury in Michigan on Friday awarded Winston & Strawn client FieldTurf USA Inc. $30 million in a patent infringement suit against rival Astroturf LLC, and left the door open for treble damages by finding that the copying was willful.
In 2010, FieldTurf sued Astroturf for infringing its synthetic turf technology. According to the complaint, FieldTurf’s product is “more like natural grass in that the blades are longer, softer and are held up by an infill material that includes a confirmation of hard and resilient granules.”
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