Intuitive Surgical Back In Court On “Remote Location” Patent Dispute
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A federal appeals court decision to overturn an earlier ruling that Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci robotic surgery system did not infringe a patent held by Brookhill-Wilk complicates Intuitive's plan to settle outstanding patent litigation via acquisition
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