Ingevity Corporation v. Basf Corporation, No. 24-1577 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 11, 2026)

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Ingevity Corporation and Ingevity South Carolina, LLC (together, “Ingevity”) sued BASF Corporation (“BASF”) in the United States District Court for th e Dis- trict of Delaware for infringement of U.S. Patent RE38,844 (“the ’844 patent”). The district court granted su mmary judgment of invalidity of the asserted claims (1, 4 , 11, 18, 19, 24, 43 and 48) of the ’844 patent. See Ingevity Corp. v. BASF Corp. , 501 F. Supp. 3d 274 (D. Del. 2020).