Appeals court stays ban on Medtronic's CoreValve device
April 21, 2014 by Brad Perriello
A federal appeals court today put a hold on the impending ban on U.S. sales of Medtronic’s CoreValve replacement heart valve “pending further notice,” as Medtronic’s patent infringement war with rival Edwards Lifesciences and its competing Sapien valve grinds on.
Earlier this month Judge Gregory Sleet of the U.S. District Court for Delaware granted a preliminary injunction to Edwards, limiting U.S. sales of the CoreValve transcatheter aortic heart implant to patients deemed unsuitable for Edwards’ rival Sapien device. Read more
Edwards Lifesciences decries Medtronic's 'scare tactics' in CoreValve dispute
April 21, 2014 by Brad Perriello
Edwards Lifesciences urged a federal appeals court to ignore the alleged “scare tactics” put forward by Medtronic in an effort to forestall a pending ban on U.S. sales of Medtronic’s CoreValve replacement heart valve.
Earlier this month Judge Gregory Sleet of the U.S. District Court for Delaware granted a preliminary injunction to Edwards, limiting U.S. sales of the CoreValve transcatheter aortic heart implant to patients deemed unsuitable for Edwards’ rival Sapien device. Read more
Ethicon fights plaintiffs' remand bid in pelvic mesh cases
April 22, 2014 by Brad Perriello
Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary asked a federal judge yesterday to block a bid to send a group of pelvic mesh product liability cases back to a state court in Philadelphia.
A raft of medical device companies – including Ethicon, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, Endo Health Solutions, Cook Medical and Coloplast – are facing thousands of product liability and personal injury lawsuits over their respective pelvic mesh devices. Hundreds of cases have been consolidated into multi-district litigation under Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia. Read more
