Fed Circuit: Inventor’s Family Should Pick Up Medtronic Lawyer Fees
Executive Summary
The decision is a coda to a 2014 Federal Circuit verdict that an implantable cardioverter defibrillator patent held by Mirowski Family Ventures was invalid. About $6m in attorney’s fees were at stake.
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