A federal judge in Northern California has entered a judgment as a matter of law in favor of surgical robotics giant Intuitive in an antitrust lawsuit filed by a surgical instrument servicer. In its lawsuit filed in 2021, Glendale, Illinois–based Surgical Instrument Service Co. (SIS) had accused Intuitive of using an alleged monopoly in the multiport […]
Surgical Instrument Service Co. (SIS)
Intuitive loses bid for midtrial end to antitrust case
A federal judge has rejected a request from Intuitive to end an antitrust trial and rule in its favor. Intuitive (Sunnyvale, California) maintains that it is not using its soft-tissue surgical robotics dominance to prevent third parties from servicing its EndoWrist instruments. Yesterday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of U.S. District Court in Northern California denied Intuitive’s […]