January 20, 2012
A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday ruled that two stent patents by Cordis Corp. and Pfizer Inc. unit Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. are invalid in a suit accusing Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific Corp. and Medtronic Inc. of violating the patents.
November 19, 2008
Wyeth and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis Corp. have added Abbott Laboratories to their infringement suit against Medtronic Inc. over three stent patents, accusing the Illinois pharmaceutical company of supplying Medtronic with the drug used to coat its allegedly infringing Endeavor stents.