A jury ordered Weyerhaeuser to pay $2.3 million.
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A federal jury in Chicago ordered Weyerhaeuser to pay Procter & Gamble for infringing on its patent for Luvs disposable diapers. The same jury had ruled earlier that Weyerhaeuser, of Tacoma, Wash., copied the 1975 patent for its generic diapers, which are sold to Montgomery Ward, J. C. Penney and other retailers. Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble had asked for $30 million in damages and, under U.S. patent law, Judge William T. Hart could have tripled that to $90 million.
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