NMT Medical, AGA Medical settle
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
In return for full and final settlement of NMT's 1999 patent infringement suit, AGA will pay NMT $30 mil. for a nonexclusive sublicense to patent '420, which relates to NMT's CardioSeal, the two firms announced March 28. The alleged infringement affects all AGA Amplatzer occluding devices. NMT will split the settlement with inventor Lloyd Marks, MD, according to the firm. NMT competes with AGA in the patent foramen ovale occlusion market with STARFlex. Preliminary results of NMT's MIST I trial suggest a connection between patent foramen ovale closure and migraine symptoms (1"The Gray Sheet" March 20, 2006, p. 3)...
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