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16 October 2020AmericasMuireann Bolger

Federal Circuit resuscitates Snyder’s heart valve patent

A medical device company, St. Jude Medical, part of Abbott Laboratories, failed in its bid to invalidate a patent for an artificial heart valve at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday, Thursday, October 15.

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