The Palos Park tool company behind the Bionic Wrench is no longer in line to receive millions of dollars in damages after Sears and its supplier prevailed in a patent lawsuit. A federal jury in ...

The father and son behind a Palos Park tool company thought Sears Holdings’ Craftsman brand locking wrench looked a lot like their patented Bionic Wrench — in fact, a little too much. A federal jury ...

I know you think we are a bunch of lilly-livered weaklings with soft, useless hands. However, we do enjoy a bit of wrenching and twisting now and again. Thus unique wrench automatically adapts to any ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2009 - LoggerHead Tools received a 2009 Breakthrough Innovation Award from Popular Mechanics magazine on October 8th at the Hearst Tower in New York City for its newly designed ...

The inventor of the two patents-in-suit is Dan Brown, Sr., president and founder of LoggerHead. He also teaches engineering at Northwestern University’s Segal Design Institute. Brown came up with the ...

A federal judge has thrown out a jury's verdict and ruled that Sears and its tool supplier did not infringe on the patents of a father-and-son company that created the Bionic Wrench.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. After a years-long battle with Sears and a supplier ...

In the latest development of a long-running patent dispute over a wrench, Sears Holdings and its tool supplier have prevailed. A federal judge has thrown out a jury's verdict and ruled that the ...

LoggerHead Tools' eight-inch Bionic Wrench is a hybrid tool that is part adjustable wrench and part pliers. It is designed to deliver a mechanical advantage because it equally distributes force around ...