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 ...

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 ...

Inventors are always trying to build a better mousetrap. No, really, they are. Take the Rat Zapper Ultra, courtesy of attorney-cum-tinker Bob Noe. Fond of horses and open spaces, Noe long tried to rid ...

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 ...