![J. Geiger Shades, a related company to GeigTech, the design was copied by Lutron, the fury says](https://www.strata-gee.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/j_geiger-shade_design-v_lutron-1024x441.jpg)
A Federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a verdict against Lutron Electronics Co., finding that it had infringed on a window shade patent held by GeigTech East Bay, a South Carolina company. The jury awarded GeigTech $34.6 million in damages for Lutron’s infringement, a figure that Lutron called “grossly excessive.”