Boston Scientific Loses Patent Trial
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A jury in Texas has ruled that Boston Scientificâs drug-coated stents infringe a 1997 patent issued to a radiologist in Princeton, N.J., and has awarded the inventor $431 million in damages, Boston Scientific said Tuesday. The suit by the patent holder, Dr. Bruce N. Saffran, did not seek to halt sales of the stents.
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Boston Scientific receives a warning letter from the FDA on a discontinued stent trial.
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Text of report by Belgian RTBF radio on 13 February  Google has lost its court case against the publishers of Belgian French-language newspapers.
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Eli Lilly loses a pair of patent cases over its top compound.
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Amgen Inc. said yesterday a jury ruled in its favor in a patent dispute over an anemia treatment whose possible US launch could challenge the drug maker's top-selling drug.
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A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry pagers, engaged in patent infringement, but it gave the company a chance to reduce a jury award that has grown to more than $100 million with interest.
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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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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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Boston Scientific Corp. reported a third-quarter loss and tepid sales yesterday, two days after the ailing medical device maker announced plans to cut 2,300 jobs worldwide.
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A federal judge in Boston dismissed patent claims filed by large biotechnology companies against Columbia University that alleged the New York school was improperly trying to extend its rights to a process widely used to engineer new drugs.
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The companyâs lawyers had attempted to gain the upper hand in a patent case by highlighting safety concerns about the companyâs own product.
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A federal appeals court handed Google Inc a setback in a patent fight on Wednesday, tossing out part of a summary judgment in the Web search engine's favor in a lawsuit filed by HyperphRase Technologies, LLC.
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A federal jury in New York has dealt a legal blow to Sun Microsystems Inc., ruling that Sun violated several patents held by Eastman Kodak Co.
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A US appeals court upheld a patent infringement finding against BlackBerry e-mail device maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM.TO: Quote, Profile
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Boston Scientific Corp.  posted a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday as sales of its flagship drug-eluting heart stent fell by 32 percent.
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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 struck  down part of the ruling and sent it back to a lower court for  further proceedings.
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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.