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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am always a fan of gadgets that solve a solution for multiple devices and save you carrying around bundles of other gadgets. As long as they do the job well, like the classic Swiss Army Knife. The ...

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 ...

I am the inventor of the Bionic Wrench. It's an all-in-one tool that replaced the need for wrenches of various sizes by adjusting automatically to any size nut. I brought it to the market in 2005, and ...