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Written by : Eric Wittgrove Health Tracker Systems LLC (“Health Tracker”) sued Garmin International, Inc. (“Garmin”) for patent infringement in the Central District of California on March 6, 2023. The lawsuit alleges that…
Written by : Nima Zargari, Ph.D. On February 24, 2023, in Jazz Pharms., Inc., v. Avadel CNS Pharms., LLC , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the United States District Court for the District of Delaware’s grant of an…
Written by : Arash Pia On January 31st, 2023, a jury awarded $42 million to medical device company TissueGen in a patent infringement case against Boston Scientific for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,596,296 , titled “Biodegradable Drug-Releasing…
Written by : Kregg Koch & Sabing Lee The original version of this article was published by Life Sciences IP Review. Click here to view that article. Bringing a medical device to market relies on a broad understanding of IP, explain Sabing Lee and Kregg…
Written by : Philip M. Nelson In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi to decide whether an inventor must describe every example in a category to get an enforceable patent for that category. Must a patent simply give…
Written by : Douglas B. Wentzel Earlier this year, AliveCor, Inc. , a medical device and AI company producing electrocardiogram (ECG) hardware and software for consumer mobile devices, succeeded in convincing an International Trade Commission (ITC) judge…
The Federal Circuit has affirmed that Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. did not infringe Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. patents, easing Eagle’s path to market a generic competitor to Par’s Vasostrict® product. Par had alleged that Eagle’s…
HOLOGIC, INC. v. MINERVA SURGICAL, INC. Before Stoll, Clevenger, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Despite cancelling a claim prior to assignment, assignor estoppel still applied to bar…
On July 29, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) issued a Notice by Director Kathy Vidal that may be relevant to those seeking or holding patents on medical devices that require Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) approval. The…
AliveCor, Inc. , a company focused on cardiac data and remote medicine, successfully convinced an International Trade Commission (ITC) judge that Apple, Inc. infringed multiple AliveCor patents related to electrocardiogram (ECG) technology. AliveCor…
A medical device patentee has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to save his design patent, related to an introducer sheath handle, from invalidity based on application of the “on-sale” bar, which prohibits patenting an invention if it has been for…
On June 16, 2022, the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed to a partial waiver of intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 vaccines. The agreement came on the heels of an all-night negotiating session . The agreement followed years of proposals…
