Texas Jury Declares that Universal(TM) Ballasts Infringe U.S. Patent No. 5,436,529 issued to Andrew Bobel, Founder, CEO and CTO of NEPTUN Light, Inc. - MarketWatch

CHICAGO, Jun 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- On Friday, June 17, 2011, after a week-long trial at the U.S. District Court in Wichita Falls, TX, a jury declared that all of the asserted electronic ballast products sold by Universal(TM) Lighting Technologies (ULT) of Nashville, TN, a subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. and Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Japan (MEW), infringe all of the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,436,529.