KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Illinois Tool Works Inc. and its subsidiaries ("ITW") appeal from the tax court's determination that $6,956,590 of a more than $17 million court judgment paid by ITW should be capitalized as a cost of acquiring certain assets of the DeVilbiss Co. rather than deducted as an ordinary business expense. The judgment at issue was the result of a jury verdict in a patent infringement suit filed against DeVilbiss's former owner, Champion Spark Plug...
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