St. Jude charges infringement by Vigor pacer, Ventak Mini ICD in letter to Guidant.
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
ST. JUDE PACER/ICD PATENT CROSS-LICENSE WITH GUIDANT sought by St. Jude's Pacesetter business, Guidant says in a Sept. 6 supplement to its offering circular-prospectus for its split-off from Lilly. In an Aug. 28 letter, according to Guidant, Pacesetter says it believes Guidant's Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. unit is using certain Pacesetter patents in its Vigor pacemaker/programmer combination and that it "may also be using two patents licensed to Pacesetter" in its Ventak Mini automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator.