NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2009 - LoggerHead Tools received a 2009 Breakthrough Innovation Award from Popular Mechanics magazine on October 8th at the Hearst Tower in New York City for its newly designed ...

Editor’s note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise. Afterward, Brown’s lawyers spoke to the jurors. “They said ...

LoggerHead Tools' eight-inch Bionic Wrench is a hybrid tool that is part adjustable wrench and part pliers. It is designed to deliver a mechanical advantage because it equally distributes force around ...

The Palos Park tool company behind the Bionic Wrench is no longer in line to receive millions of dollars in damages after Sears and its supplier prevailed in a patent lawsuit. A federal jury in ...

Last Christmas, Sears had a brisk seller in the Bionic Wrench, an award-winning, patented tool with spiffy lime green accents. This holiday season, though, Sears has a special display for its own ...

The father and son behind a Palos Park tool company thought Sears Holdings’ Craftsman brand locking wrench looked a lot like their patented Bionic Wrench — in fact, a little too much. A federal jury ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Chalk it up as a win for the little guy. Nearly five years ...

Part wrench, part pliers, the Bionic Wrench from Loggerhead Tools automatically adjusts to fit nuts and bolts between 7/16 and 3/4 inch, or 10 metric sizes. Its wraparound grip is designed to avoid ...

The inventor of the two patents-in-suit is Dan Brown, Sr., president and founder of LoggerHead. He also teaches engineering at Northwestern University’s Segal Design Institute. Brown came up with the ...