Category: Medical Devices
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UPC Dusseldorf grants surgical tool maker patent injunction, includes UK
Aesculap has won a UPC ruling against Bojin’s EU authorized representative over a surgical tool patent, but the court held the representative liable only as an intermediary, not as an infringer.
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Guardant Health ordered to pay TwinStrand Biosciences and University of Washington $245M in Delaware dispute over DNA sequencing patents
The co-plaintiffs were originally awarded $83.4 million by a District of Delaware jury in November 2023.
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Dental AI patent still has teeth after Federal Circuit vacates decision that saw PTAB side with Invisalign maker
The appeals court found that the PTAB erred in recognizing as prior art an application claiming a priority date from a provisional filing.
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Malikie Innovations sets sights on medical device segment with latest U.S. complaint targeting Abbott
The heir to the BlackBerry patent portfolio appears to be testing the waters in the multibillion-dollar market for connected medical devices.
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District Judge preserves Masimo’s $634M jury verdict against Apple; Federal Circuit denies rehearing request over their USITC case
The patent and trade secret dispute over the Apple Watch rumbles on.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD enjoins Siemens mammography product over Hologic’s flying-focal-spot patent, refusing a €4 billion security demand
The UPC’s Dusseldorf LD held Siemens Healthineers’ MAMMOMAT B.brilliant infringes Hologic’s flying-focal-spot patent in three countries, relying on Siemens’s own marketing. It granted an injunction and recall, ordered destruction, and refused Siemens’s €4 billion enforcement-security demand.
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Boston Scientific raises University of Texas’s alleged inflammatory comments, A-Rod comparisons in appeal of $42M District of Delaware jury verdict
Counsel compared an expert witness to the disgraced baseball player, while also suggesting that the standard for finding invalidity should be similar to deciding whether to commit someone to a psychiatric institution.
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District judge opens door to rare “reverse doctrine of equivalents” defense in medical device dispute
The judge’s order came amid long-running litigation between Maquet and Abiomed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts over intravascular blood pump technologies.
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Apple patent adversary Masimo acquired in $9.9B deal
As Masimo awaits the outcome of a United States International Trade Commission investigation into a patent non-infringement decision in its case against Apple, and a parallel appeal against a $634 million damages verdict filed by Apple, the company has agreed to be acquired by Danaher for over $9.9 billion.
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UPC Dusseldorf grants preliminary injunction over orthodontic aligners, clarifies how (not) to raise invalidity arguments, liability of financial holding
After yesterday’s permanent injunction in a printer cartridge case, the Unified Patent Court’s Dusseldorf Local Division has now handed down a preliminary injunction in a med tech case.