Federal Circuit deals another blow to patent trolls
27 August 2008
Ryan Pasquale, New York
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has denied Jan Voda’s appeal requesting a permanent injunction against medical device company Cordis Corporation
The appellate verdict affirmed a lower court's ruling denying the injunction as the patentee and not the exclusive licensee was named in the lawsuit.
Voda's exclusive licensee for his catheter patents was medical device maker Scimed.
The lawsuit was filed after cardiologist Voda claimed that his domestic and international patents for angioplasty guide catheters were infringed by a similar model made by Cordis.
Although the lower court found the patents infringed, it denied Voda's request for a permanent injunction against Cordis.
Upholding the denial of a permanent injunction,...
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