SonoSite expands GE patent lawsuit:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Hand-carried ultrasound developer SonoSite has amended details of its ultrasound patent infringement countersuit against GE. The revised lawsuit now asserts that GE's Vivid and Logiq ultrasound products, certain transducers and the Vivid 7 cart-based system infringe two other patents '566 and '839 related to ultrasound technology with ECG modules and software in a detachable scanhead, in addition to the previous patents mentioned in the original complaint. SonoSite (Bothell, Washington) first filed its counterclaim in July this year in reaction to GE's lawsuit, which alleged that the former's MicroMaxx and Titan imaging systems contravened five patents related to technology that displays blood flow via ultrasound (see Clinica No 1264, p 15).