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Barry v. Medtronic: Physician Experimental Use

Barry v. Medtronic: Physician Experimental Use

Last 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 Redundant

Partially Overlapping Claim Terms Are Not Necessarily Redundant

In 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 Claims

Ensnarement & Hypothetical Claims

In Jang v. Boston Sci. Corp., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18825, the Federal Circuit revisited a decade-old controversy. The case is a good...

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