Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." But a California company says that when it achieved that goal and won a patent for a device ...

A federal jury in Philadelphia determined Thursday a local firm really didn't build a better mousetrap. The jury ordered Lititz-based Woodstream Corp. to pay $2.7 million for infringing on a ...

The latest case concerning the scope of microprocessors is found, not in the world of computers, but in this battle over the right to electrocute pests. If you thought that the issue of whether a ...

VENTURA, Calif. -- Bob Noe's idea for a better mousetrap is called the Rat Zapper. Sold under the slogan "The Power Tool for Rodent Control," it is a blue plastic box about the size of a milk carton ...

Ending a nearly four-year battle over unpaid legal fees, Drinker Biddle won a $1.78 million award in a Pennsylvania state court. According to the ABA Journal, it started in 2006 when Agri-Zap Inc. had ...