Appeals Court reaffirms US Surgical ruling:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reaffirmed last year's ruling in favour of US Surgical's patent dispute against Ethicon Endo-Surgery. Judge Arthur Spiegel maintained that US Surgical's endoscopic and open GIA linear cutter staplers do not infringe Ethicon's patent (see Clinica No 671, p 11).