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23 February 2017Americas

SCOTUS declines Boston Scientific appeal in defibrillator dispute

The US Supreme Court has declined to review an appeal by Boston Scientific, which had been ordered to pay Maryland-based Mirowski Family Ventures $309 million in a patent dispute covering a defibrillator.

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