January 19, 2018
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap was right to let a jury skip ruling on whether a medical device maker's patents were valid after they found a competitor didn't infringe them, and he was clear to send the jury back when they did rule on validity, the Federal Circuit said Friday.
December 06, 2017
A medical device maker urged a Federal Circuit panel in oral arguments Wednesday to restore a Texas federal jury's original conclusion that claims of two spinal correction device patents were invalid, a finding erased by U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in what the company called an "unprecedented" Seventh Amendment violation.