Court awards $400M punitive damages vs Medtronic unit
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- A Memphis, Tenn. jury awarded Gary Michelson and Karlin Technology $400 million in punitive damages against Medtronic Inc.
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A Washington, D.C., woman has filed a lawsuit seeking US$54 million in damages from Best Buy after the electronics retailer lost her laptop computer last year.
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A Memphis jury on Tuesday ordered a Medtronic subsidiary to pay about $110 million plus possible punitive damages in a dispute between the company and the doctor who invented some of its spinal fusion technologies.
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A drug manufacturer won Supreme Court review Friday of a $6.8 million verdict in the case of a woman whose arm had to be amputated after she was injected with one of its medications.
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A federal jury told wireless chip supplier Qualcomm Inc.  to pay smaller rival Broadcom Corp.  $19.6 million in damages for infringing three of its patents, the companies said on Tuesday.
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and awarded him $20 million in compensatory damages.
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A jury in Memphis, Tenn. has ordered a company owned by Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. to pay an inventor $110 million in damages. The jury ruled that Medtronic Sofamor Danek Inc.
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A federal jury on Tuesday ordered Medtronic Inc. (MDT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to pay $400 million in punitive damages to an inventor of spinal surgical devices sold by the medical equipment maker.
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A federal jury told wireless chip  supplier Qualcomm Inc.  to pay smaller rival Broadcom  Corp.  $19.6 million in damages for infringing three of  its patents, the companies said on Tuesday.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - Federal prosecutors in New Jersey said on Thursday they have reached a $311 million settlement with companies in the medical device implant industry.
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The Supreme Court is making it harder for consumers to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices.
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The hit on Qualcomm from a patent suit it lost to rival Broadcom may be slashed because of an unrelated ruling that came down in August.In May, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California found that&#160;Qualcomm infringed three Broadcom patents&#160;and awarded Broadcom $19.6 million. The judge in that case, James Selna, said he would double the damages to more than $39 million because the jury found the infringement was wilful. The damage award isn&#39;t final because other issues in the case are still pending.On Monday, Selna tentatively overturned the double award because of a new standard for proving wilful infringement, said Broadcom attorney David Rosmann. Broadcom can either accept the $19.6 million in direct damages or pursue a new trial in which it would try to prove Qualcomm acted deliberately, he said. Judge Selna ruled any new trial would look at the whole case over again, he said.Broadcom hasn&#39;t decided which path to take, but its priority in the case is getting an injunction to stop Qualcomm from making, using or selling the chips, Rosmann said.&quot;The issue of the injunction is far more important to Broadcom than the damages,&quot; Rosmann said. &quot;We&#39;re hoping to move forward on the injunction as quickly as possible.&quot;In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upped the ante for patent owners that want to earn higher damages -- they can be as much as tripled -- by proving someone knew they were infringing a patent and did so anyway, according to patent attorney Smith Brittingham of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &amp; Dunner.&quot;You have to show more comprehension of the situation than you would have had to in the past,&quot; Brittingham said. The Federal Circuit ruling, on a suit against hard-drive vendor Seagate Technology, automatically changed the standard in all federal courts, he said. The ruling could change other pending cases, he said.The new standard probably won&#39;t discourage patent suits among competitors like the Broadcom-Qualcomm dispute, but it may make litigation less attractive for patent-holding companies in the business of suing, Brittingham said.&quot;It&#39;s consistent with the view that ... maybe patent infringement cases have gotten too easy to win and have created an unnecessary drag on business,&quot; he said.Judge Selna asked Broadcom for a decision by the end of this week, Rosmann said. Qualcomm declined to comment on the substance of the case.The suit is one of several between Qualcomm and Broadcom, who are battling over the market for mobile-phone chips.
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A New Jersey jury found on Monday that  Merck & Co. Inc.'s  withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was  responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and it awarded $20  million in compensatory damages.
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EchoStar Communications Corp  infringed a TiVo Inc patent in building digital video recorders  and must pay nearly $74 million in damages, a court that  specializes in patent cases ruled on Thursday.
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A jury awarded &#36;75 million in punitive damages Wednesday to the family of a 7-year-old girl paralyzed in a car wreck caused by a drunken football fan. A day earlier, the family was awarded &#36;60 million in compensatory damages.
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The Supreme Court handed a victory to Medtronic Inc on Wednesday, ruling that patients cannot sue medical-device manufacturers in state court over harm from a device that has approval from federal regulators.
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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.