In Brief: Pillar Point Partners
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Pillar Point Partners: Federal Trade Commission initiates an investigation into whether the Summit/Visx partnership "and/or its partners...is engaging or has engaged in any unfair methods of competition in violation of the FTC Act," Summit says. Summit and Visx created Pillar Point in 1992 to hold the rights to both companies' U.S. apparatus and method patents for performing ultraviolet laser corneal surgery...