Medtronic and WL Gore end litigation
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Medtronic has settled a patent litigation case that it brought against WL Gore & Associates in 2006. Specific details of the agreement are confidential but Medtronic did say that it expects to recognise a one-time gain in its second fiscal quarter, ending October 30, 2009. The litigation had centred on Medtronic’s Jervis patents family, which cover the use of stress to restrain self-expanding medical devices made of Nitinol, including the firm’s transcatheter coronary heart valve products. The trial also covered the Wiktor stent patents.