After years of protracted and often bitter litigation in the US and abroad, Edwards Lifesciences and Medtronic today announced a broad resolution to all their patent disputes over transcatheter heart valves. Medtronic will pay more than a billion dollars over the course of the agreement, which lasts until April 2022. … Click here to read the full post on Forbes. …
Medtronic To Pay Over $1Billion To Settle Patent Litigation With Edwards Lifesciences
May 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Will Edwards Snatch Defeat From The Jaws Of Its Victory Over Medtronic?
April 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
On the heels of a sweeping victory in the courts over its rival Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences is poised to dominate the TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) market– the revolutionary new catheter technology that offers some patients with life-threatening aortic valve disease an alternative to chest-splitting surgery. Although the legal wrangling is not quite over– Medtronic is appealing the decision and has requested…
New Medtronic Heart Valve Threatened By Court Decision
April 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A legal injunction may severely limit the availability in the United States of Medtronic’s CoreValve device, which only received FDA approval earlier this year. The device received abundant praise recently when a large clinical trial demonstrated substantial advantages for CoreValve over traditional open-heart surgery. The injunction is the latest episode in an ongoing patent war in which Edwards Lifesciences, which pioneered…
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