Kassandra DiPietro
Subscribe to Kassandra DiPietro's PostsKassandra DiPietro focuses her practice on antitrust and competition matters, with experience handling merger investigations and enforcement actions. She joined McDermott Will & Schulte from the Mergers II division of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where she participated in several of the FTC’s most high-profile merger challenges. Read Kassandra DiPietro's full bio.
Tied up: Federal Circuit affirms antitrust verdict in patent case
By Kassandra DiPietro on Feb 26, 2026
Posted In Antitrust, Patents
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a jury verdict finding that Ingevity engaged in unlawful tying under the Sherman Act by conditioning licenses to its patent on customers’ purchase of its unpatented products that were staple items of commerce. Ingevity Corp. v. BASF Corp., Case No. 24-1577 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 11,...
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