Boston Scientific Loses Patent Trial
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A jury in Texas has ruled that Boston Scientificâs drug-coated stents infringed a 1997 patent issued to a radiologist and has awarded the inventor $431 million.
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NEW YORK, December 15  - A US appeal court has upheld a lower courtâs decision that Research in Motion (RIMM.NAS) had infringed on the patents held by NTP, while canceling an injunction preventing the sales of Blackberry email devices
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Boston Scientific Corp. BSX.N, whose  Taxus heart device has been involved in a major recall, said on  Wednesday preliminary August sales of the device slowed to $200  million from $207 million reported in July, and issued an  outlook that was below Wall Street estimates.
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Â· Judge says company fell seriously short of its duty  Â· Firm admits testing procedure badly flawed
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Eight months after Boston Scientific Corp. won a bidding war for heart-device maker Guidant Corp. , loser Johnson &amp; Johnson hit it with a $5.5 billion lawsuit that alleges the Natick company improperly induced Guidant to violate the terms of its acquisition deal with Johnson &amp; Johnson.
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Medical device maker Medtronic Inc.  lost a patent case over heart stents against rivals Guidant  Corp. and Boston Scientific Corp. on Wednesday, but the company  said it would appeal the decision.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - A federal appeals court affirmed part of a lower court ruling that found Research In Motion Ltd.&#39;s technology violated several patents, a ruling which ultimately may require the maker of BlackBerry devices to pay hefty damage
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ABB Ltd., the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering giant, said Thursday it had lost its bid to have a U.S. appeals court partially review its &#36;1.2 billion asbestos-claims settlement.
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Pfizer loses a patent case over its top compound.
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Johnson & Johnson  has sued  Boston Scientific  and Abbott Laboratories Inc. ,  seeking at least $5.5 billion in damages related to J&J's  failed bid to acquire medical device maker Guidant Corp.
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A U.S. court dealt a blow to Johnson &  Johnson  in its $5.5 billion lawsuit over the sale of  Guidant Corp to Boston Scientific Corp , dismissing some  claims and only allowing part of the case to proceed.
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A federal judge has ruled that some product liability claims against Boston Scientific Corp.  over heart defibrillators can proceed, rejecting the medical device company's motions to dismiss them.
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TORONTO/WASHINGTON  - A U.S. appeals court upheld  a patent infringement finding against BlackBerry e-mail device  maker Research In Motion Ltd. RIM.TO on Tuesday, but said  part of the earlier court ruling was flawed and sent the case  back to a lower court.
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A New York scientist's seven-year effort to win a patent on a laboratory-conceived creature that is part human and part animal ended in failure Friday, closing a historic and somewhat ghoulish chapter in American intellectual-property law.
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The drug company's experimental treatment for Alzheimer's  failed to prove effective in a big clinical trial. The stock  closed Tuesday at $45.85 on the New York Stock Exchange before  falling 10 percent in after-hours trading following release of  the trial results.
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A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the BlackBerry data device.
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Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday it has won back the market share that its flagship cardiac stent system held before three safety recalls reduced doctors&#39; orders of the product.