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1. AGA Says WL Gore Infringes Heart Device Patent

Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010

Medical device manufacturer AGA Medical Corp. has filed an infringement lawsuit alleging W.L. Gore & Associates is muscling in on a patent AGA Medical holds for a device used to treat structural heart defects.

2. Ex-St. Jude Exec Can't Work At Medtronic Until Nov.

Thursday, Aug 12, 2010

A Minnesota judge has barred a former St. Jude Medical Inc. executive from working at rival company Medtronic Inc. until November because of a noncompetition clause in his employment contract.

3. Medtronic Faces False Marking Suit Over Stents

Monday, Jul 12, 2010

Promote Innovation LLC has accused Medtronic Inc. of falsely marking its stents with patents found unenforceable due to inequitable conduct.

4. FDA Issues Class I Recall Of Medtronic Defibrillators

Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is classifying the voluntary recall of Lifepak 20 and Lifepak 20e defibrillators manufactured by a Medtronic Inc. subsidiary as Class I, less than three months after the agency issued a similar recall of the company's Lifepak 15 defibrillators.

5. Lenox-MacLaren, Medtronic End Bone Mill Patent Row

Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010

Lenox-MacLaren Surgical Corp. has agreed to a settlement in its patent licensing suit against Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA Inc. over a bone mill device used in orthopedic surgery.

6. MDs Take $10M Greenberg Malpractice Suit To Fed. Circ.

Friday, Jun 18, 2010

A group of surgeons at New York University has appealed a jury verdict that found Greenberg Traurig LLP not liable of legal malpractice in a $10 million suit that accused the firm of allowing a medical device patent to expire.

7. Ciba, Novartis Partly Dodge Contact Lens Injury Suit

Friday, Jun 11, 2010

An Illinois man who alleges Ciba Vision Corp. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. contact lenses injured his eyes has seen his amended complaint partially dismissed on preemption grounds.

8. Medtronic Sues Bovie Over Surgical Device Patent

Wednesday, Jun 09, 2010

Medtronic Inc. has sued Bovie Medical Corp., alleging that one of the rival medical implement maker's lines of products infringes a patent for a device used to stop bleeding in surgery.

9. Biotechs Face Higher Bar For Induced Infringement

Thursday, Jun 03, 2010

Because many pharmaceutical and biotech patent owners often have to rely on the doctrine of induced infringement to assert their method patents, their ability to assert their intellectual property has been disproportionately impacted by the high standard of proof imposed by the Federal Circuit in DSU Medical, say Gavin Bogle of Iovate Health Sciences Inc. and Eric J. Marandett and Jessica Gan Lee of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP.

10. Greenberg Escapes Surgeons' $10M Malpractice Suit

Monday, May 03, 2010

A federal jury has found that Greenberg Traurig LLP is not liable in a $10 million legal malpractice suit that accused the firm of allowing a medical device patent held by a group of surgeons at New York University to expire.

11. Medtronic To Buy ATS Medical In $370M Deal

Thursday, Apr 29, 2010

In a bid to boost its cardiovascular business, Medtronic Inc. has inked a deal to acquire ATS Medical Inc. in a transaction the companies have valued at approximately $370 million, including the assumption of net debt.

12. Fed. Circ. Nixes $4.4M In Sanctions Against McDermott

Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010

A federal appeals court has reversed a $4.4 million sanctions order finding that McDermott Will & Emery LLP and client Medtronic Navigation Inc. knowingly prolonged a hopeless patent infringement suit over surgical navigation devices.

13. Medtronic Recall Earns FDA's Most Serious Rating

Thursday, Apr 22, 2010

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified the voluntary recall of Lifepak 15 defibrillators manufactured by a Medtronic Inc. subsidiary as Class I.

14. Howmedica Faulty Hip Implant Suit Preempted: Judge

Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit against Howmedica Osteonics Corp. over an allegedly defective hip implant, ruling that the plaintiff's claims were preempted by federal laws per the standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in Riegel v. Medtronic Inc.

15. FDA Warns Edwards Over Heart Device Reporting

Thursday, Apr 08, 2010

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has hit Edwards Lifesciences LLC with a warning over the company's alleged inability to properly and timely report six complaints of adverse events linked to its annuloplasty ring devices and a pericardial heart valve device.

16. Medtronic To Appeal Edwards' $74M Heart Valve IP Win

Monday, Apr 05, 2010

Medtronic Inc. has vowed to appeal a $73.5 million jury verdict that rival Edwards Lifesciences Corp. won against one of the medical device maker's subsidiaries in a dispute over a patent for catheter heart valve technology.

17. AGA To Pay $35M To End Medtronic Stent Patent Suit

Monday, Mar 29, 2010

AGA Medical Holdings Inc. has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve a 2007 suit brought by rival medical device maker Medtronic Inc. alleging infringement of patents covering shape memory alloy stents.

18. Medtronic Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Spine Treatments

Wednesday, Mar 24, 2010

Medical supply maker CareFusion Corp. has accused Medtronic Inc. of knowingly acquiring a bevy of invalid and unenforceable patents related to treatments for fractures caused by compressed vertebrae and using those patents to unfairly keep competitors out of the market for the surgical spinal procedures.

19. Medtronic ERISA Suit Over $510M IP Payouts Tossed

Thursday, Mar 18, 2010

A federal judge has dismissed a putative class action brought by current and former Medtronic Inc. employees claiming that the medical device maker's retirement plan suffered steep losses after Medtronic revealed it would pay nearly $510 million in patent settlements.

20. Fredrikson & Byron Reps Medtronic In $3B Debt Offering

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010

Medtronic Inc. is planning to offer $3 billion of debt in a three-part sale, a move the medical device giant said would help generate cash for working capital and general corporate purposes, including possibly paying down its indebtedness.