Steptoe Patent Team Scores Major Victory for Honda

The US District Court for the District of Kansas, with less than three weeks before trial, granted summary judgment in favor of Honda finding that the In-Bed Trunk of the Honda Ridgeline does not infringe the asserted patent. 

The plaintiff, using a commercial which featured the In-Bed Trunk of the Honda Ridgeline involving a group of campers pulling a fish out of the In-Bed trunk to appease a hungry bear who is about to eat them, alleged that the In-Bed Trunk was a major selling point for the Honda Ridgeline and was thus, he claimed, to be entitled to over $100 million in damages for patent infringement.  

The Steptoe & Johnson team consisted of John Caracappa, Gretchen Miller, Charles Schill, Kathleen Long, Rachel Hofstatter, Adam Ellsworth, Houda Morad, Connie Shepherd and Monica Ameeti.