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30 October 2015Americas

Federal Circuit rules in Medtronic and St. Jude patent rows

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two separate judgments concerning the alleged infringement of a patent covering an access control mechanism for a wireless network by medical device makers Medtronic and St. Jude Medical.

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