Nearly two dozen new lawsuits were filed against Sterigenics this week over its now-shuttered ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization plant in Willowbrook, Ill., according to a law firm representing some of the plaintiffs. That brings the total of such lawsuits to nearly 75, noted Chicago personal injury lawyer Antonio Romanucci, court-appointed lead counsel from among five firms involved in the […]
Drug or device? FDA loses this argument for now
This article has been updated with comments from an attorney for Genus Medical Technologies. A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the FDA to regulate a barium sulfate product ingested before imaging as a drug. The decision counts as at least a partial win for Genus Medical Technologies (St. Louis), maker of the […]
Medtronic faces patent lawsuit over CoreValve tech
A decade-old company called Colibri Heart Valve is claiming in a lawsuit that Medtronic’s CoreValve line of TAVR devices are infringing on two of its patents. Founded in 2010, Broomfield, Colo.–based Colibri boasts that its TAVI system is the only one using dry tissue technology to allow for a pre-mounted, pre-crimped, and pre-loaded heart valve, […]
Ortho devicemakers Hensler and Tobra face off in patent lawsuit
Hensler Surgical (Wilmington, N.C.) filed a patent infringement lawsuit yesterday accusing competitor Tobra Medical of infringing a newly-issued patent for an orthopedic surgery device. Filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of North Carolina, the lawsuit alleges that Tobra founder and president Bradford Collins contacted Hensler in early 2017 and expressed interest in […]
J&J’s Ethicon gets to substitute 20 new claims on surgical stapler patent
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) may file new claims in a surgical stapler patent case brought by Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) against J&J’s Ethicon unit. The original patent was granted in 2015. Ethicon sued Intuitive in Delaware in 2017, alleging that with the EndoWrist stapler Intuitive developed for its da Vinci robot-assisted surgery platform, Intuitive violates seven Ethicon […]
Viant to cease ethylene oxide sterilization at Michigan plant by year’s end
Viant Medical has signed a consent order to stop sterilizing medical devices using ethylene oxide (EtO) at its plant in Grand Rapids, Mich. by Dec. 31, 2020, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). Viant also agreed to stop using ethylene oxide (EtO) at the plant by Jan. 31, to conduct monthly air […]
OncoSec $30m fundraise threatened by spat
OncoSec Medical (NSDQ:ONCS) is embroiled in a lawsuit and proxy war over a $30 million money-raise as it seeks to continue development of its cancer treatment technology. The company — headquartered in San Diego and Pennington, N.J. — sent a letter to shareholders today in which it countered what it described as false and misleading statements […]
Appeals court tosses former Abiomed Asia exec’s lawsuit
This article has been updated with a comment from Abiomed. A federal appeals court has dismissed the wrongful termination law suit of a former Asia VP for Abiomed (NSDQ:ABMD). The three-judge panel ruled on Nov. 27 that Keisuke Suzuki failed to prove that Abiomed owed him compensation in the form of company stock options for […]
Federal appeals court dismisses appeal in Resmed, Fisher & Paykel patent case
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has dismissed a Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (NZE:FPH) appeal of a breathing masks patent decision involving ResMed (NYSE:RMD). The two companies already settled all outstanding patent infringement disputes worldwide in a deal announced in February, with Resmed then seeking to dismiss Fisher & Paykel’s appeal of the U.S. Patent […]
MiMedx agrees to $1.5 million settlement in fraud case
Embattled biotech company MiMedx has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle federal charges that it and three former top executives allegedly defrauded investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission said today. The SEC alleges that from 2013 to 2017, Marietta, Ga.-based MiMedx and those executives misstated the company’s revenue and attempted to cover up their […]
Report: Sanctions against Boston Scientific overturned in court
A Minneapolis federal judge has overturned sanctions imposed last month on Boston Scientific in a whistleblower lawsuit lodged over two of its cardiac rhythm management devices. U.S. District Court Judge Joan Ericksen on Monday vacated the sanctions ordered Oct. 16 by the late Judge Steven Rau, according to a report by Law360. Rau had lambasted the […]
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