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St. Louis company pays $27.7M to end patent dispute

Mars Inc., the maker of M&M candies, received payment of $27.7 million Tuesday in the final stage of a 20-year-old patent dispute with a St. Louis company. The fight was over electronic-coin mechanism technology for vending machines. Mars, based in McLean, Va., sued in federal court in Newark, N.J., accusing Coin Acceptors Inc. of St. Louis of ...

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