Budde v. Harley-Davidson (Fed. Cir. 2004) (03-1610) (Unpublished Opinion).
William Budde sued Harley-Davidson for infringement of his patent on an electronic fuel injection system for V-twin motorcycle engines. After a long procedural history, the district court determined that the Harley-Davidson’s systems were not infringed, either literally or under the DOE.
The Federal Circuit agreed: “we hold that no reasonable juror could find that Harley-Davidson’s [] EFI systems infringe.”
In other bike news, Russell Ballentine of Onaga Kansas just received Design Patent No. D496,897 for his “Motorcycle Exhaust Muffler.”