MedTech news
Americas
IP management company CPA Global has agreed to pay $5.6 million to medical diagnostic company Run Them Sweet as part of a settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit. 15 March 2017
Americas
A physician at Aurora Health Care has filed patent infringement complaints against Boston Scientific, St Jude Medical and Abbott Laboratories. 14 March 2017
Americas
Law firm Perkins Coie has appointed James Hill as a partner in the IP practice in the life sciences industry group. 10 March 2017
Americas
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has said it won’t review a writ filed by Illumina and its subsidiary Verinata Health in a patent dispute with Ariosa Diagnostics. 10 March 2017
Americas
A jury at the US District Court for the District of Delaware has decided that medical technologies company C R Bard has not infringed a patent owned by W L Gore Associates, a company specialising in products derived from fluoropolymers. 9 March 2017
Europe
The English High Court handed down a split decision on patentability in a dispute between Edwards Lifesciences and Boston Scientific over patents covering transcatheter heart valves. 6 March 2017
Pharma
“The Unified Patent Court without Britain is a far less potent idea,” says Nick McDonald, partner of Potter Clarkson. 28 February 2017
Americas
The Federal Trade Commission has found after a public comment period that Abbott Laboratories’ $25 billion acquisition of St. Jude Medical would probably be anti-competitive. 24 February 2017
Americas
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. 23 February 2017
Americas
The US Supreme Court has “left more questions than it answered” in the Life Technologies v Promega ruling, which was handed down yesterday, according to lawyers. 23 February 2017