Barry v. Medtronic: Physician Experimental UseLast week, the Federal Circuit rendered an opinion in Barry v. Medtronic, in which Dr. Barry alleged that Medtronic induced surgeons to...
Partially Overlapping Claim Terms Are Not Necessarily RedundantIn Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Hologic, the Federal Circuit looked at U.S. Patent No. 7,226,459. Smith & Nephew owns the ’459 patent,...
Ensnarement & Hypothetical ClaimsIn Jang v. Boston Sci. Corp., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18825, the Federal Circuit revisited a decade-old controversy. The case is a good...