The U.S. government paid more than $87 million to settle patent infringement suits last year — a sharp uptick after a decade of mostly negligible payments in a handful of cases.
Judgment Fund records show the government reached a $75 million settlement with Honeywell International Inc. for infringing patents related to night-vision goggles, and the feds paid $10.25 million to Net Results Inc. for appropriating its land mine detection technology. Another $2.1 million went to a company holding a patent for an “interactive toy shooting game” allegedly infringed by the U.S. Army’s laser-based training systems.
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