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Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Endo-Surgery unit gains Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band laparoscopic surgical device for treatment of morbid obesity through June 27 purchase of Obtech Medical AG. The SAGB system has been available in Europe since 1987, but U.S. commercialization plans have not been finalized. Ethicon owns patents originally held by Lubomyr Kuzmak, MD, related to gastric band technology similar to the SAGB, but they are the subject of infringement litigation by Lap-Band maker Inamed (1"The Gray Sheet" June 24, 2002, In Brief)...

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