Knobbe Martens client Pinnacle Spine Group, LLC, a developer of innovative spinal fusion systems, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 9,216,096 titled Intervertebral Implants and...more
In This Presentation:
• Medical device patent statistics
• Non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation
• Inter partes reexam (IPR) update
• Important litigation
– Edwards v. Medtronic
– Masimo v. Philips
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The second step in bringing your medical device to market is to understand whether you can protect your invention.
This article is part two of a series that presents the three big issues in intellectual property: Do...more
We have no shortage of ideas for new medical devices. Many interventional vascular specialists have ideas for new devices or procedures, or ways to improve existing ones. There is no shortage of capital for good ideas,...more