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Juries on Monday, Sept. 19, delivered multimillion-dollar verdicts in favor of plaintiffs suing the Akron-based tiremaker and the Broadview Heights-based provider of lab services. Plus, Bloomberg looks at how much more houses cost in Akron as interest rates rise, and more.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. capitalized on key technological advancements a European inventor made in the quest to create self-inflating tires, passing the trade secrets off as their own, an attorney for the inventor told a federal jury in Ohio on Tuesday.