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Federal Circuit Summary
Before Prost, Moore, and Wallach. Appeal from the Northern District of Florida.
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Federal Circuit Summary
Before Judge Newman, Lourie and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts... Read More »
Federal Circuit Summary
Before Chief Judge Prost, Moore, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern ... Read More »
Federal Circuit Summary
Before Dyk, Schall, and Reyna. Appeal from U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Global medical device company Boston Scientific has announced on December 27, 2018, that it exercised its option to acquire remaining shares of... Read More »
A new study based on a novel implantable weight loss device that was published in Nature, has shown that it was able to help rats shed almost 40 percent of their body ... Read More »
Garmin International, Inc. recently announced a collaboration with ActiGraph to create health and activity monitoring solutions for academic research, clinical... Read More »
On November 9, 2018, Cook Medical LLC filed a petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board requesting inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No... Read More »
Atrial fibrillation (AF), a common heart rhythm disorder, is often treated with cardiac ablation. Cardiac ablation uses RF (heating) or cryothermal (cooling) energy... Read More »
Federal Circuit Summary
Before Lourie, O’Malley, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States International Trade Commission.
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Medical devices are increasingly incorporating software and other computer elements, but software and computer patents are in the middle of a multi-year battle... Read More »
The United States Food and Drug Administration recently announced approval for Teva Pharmaceuticals to market generic epinephrine autoinjectors. According to... Read More »
The medical device and related markets have shown some growth recently. For example, IHI, an iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF, has a total return of about 24%... Read More »
The Los Angeles-based medical device company BioSig Technologies, Inc. announced in a press release the FDA 510(k) clearance of its PURE EP System, which is designed... Read More »
MaxQ-AI (previously known as MedyMatch) recently filed for an $8 million IPO. According to Nasdaq, MaxQ-AI filed confidentially on February 13. The prosepectus... Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a medical device innovation challenge to help address opioid abuse and misuse. With the FDA Innovation... Read More »
On July 19th, 2018, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and IBM Watson Health announced an extension of their ongoing partnership to interpret... Read More »
Envision Healthcare Corporation (“Envision”) recently announced an agreement to be acquired by KKR & Co. L.P. (“KKR”) for about $5.5... Read More »
Stryker recently announced an agreement to acquire SafeAir AG, a Swiss surgical smoke evacuation company. The acquisition will likely close by the end of 2018.
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