After a nearly weeklong trial, a Marshall jury found multiple Chinese companies owe $27 million for infringing four patents held by Minnesota-based Stratasys related to 3D-printing technologies.
Stratasys filed its lawsuit in August 2024 against Shenzhen Tuozhu Technology, Shanghai Lunkuo Technology and Bambu Lab, claiming the companies infringed four of its patents.
The all-female jury returned the $27 million verdict in favor of Stratasys, finding the companies referred to as Bambu willfully infringed on the four patents.
The jury also found the companies failed to prove the patents were invalid.
The patents are related to methods for manufacturing 3D-printed parts, heated build platform and system, 3D printer with force detection and building 3D objects.
Stratasys had filed another patent lawsuit against Bambu over methods for using and detecting printer configuration information, tagged build material for 3D printing, networked 3D printing and a networked 3D printer with 3D scanner.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap consolidated that case into this trial.
Aashish Kapadia, Brian Oaks, David Tobin, Dexter Hamilton, Douglas Carsten, Ian Brooks, Kevin Meek and Syed Fareed of McDermott Will & Schulte; Adam Burrowbridge of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Andrea Fair and Garrett Parish of Miller Fair Henry; Deron Dacus of The Dacus Firm; and Jason Kraus of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough represented Stratasys. They did not respond to a request for comment.
Ruffin Cordell, Aaron Pirouznia, Alyaman Amer, Brandon Avers, Carl Bruce, David Barkan, Gregory Love, James Mullen, Julie Metkus, Meghana Thadani, Michael Vincent, Philip Brown, and Thomas Reger of Fish & Richardson represented Bambu. They did not respond to a request for comment.
The case number is 2:24-cv-00644.