Jury Orders Medtronic Unit To Pay $400M In Punitive Damages In Patent Suit

By Marius Meland (October 12, 2004, 12:00 AM EDT) -- A jury in Tennessee has ordered a subsidiary of medical device maker Medtronic to pay $400 million in punitive damages to the doctor who invented some of its spinal fusion technologies, bringing the total value of the verdict in the patent infringement lawsuit to more than $1 billion by some estimates....

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