A U.S. District Court has ruled competitor NuVasive must pay the Minnesota-based medical device maker more than $100 million in damages for infringing on three of its patents.
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Medtronic says it is evaluating its next step after a court rejected the company's appeal of a $74 million patent infringement ruling. The ruling could eventually force Medtronic to stop making one of its heart valves if a competitor - Edwards Lifesciences - seeks an injunction.
The medical-device maker reports second-quarter profits up significantly from a year ago, when the company was tangled up in legal troubles.
A company called Innovatio is suing coffee, restaurant and hotel chains, claiming their wireless Internet hotspots are infringing on its patents. The company is asking for payments of a few thousand dollars. Tech giants Motorola and Cisco are firing back, saying their products don't infringe and that Innovatio's patents are invalid.
The Supreme Court sided unanimously with Mayo in a patent dispute with California-based Prometheus Laboratories. The clinic had used a blood test developed by Prometheus until 2004, when it developed its own in-house test. Prometheus sued for patent infringement, but Mayo argued that using test to measure a natural bodily process is not patent eligible.
The federal class action suit was filed by the Minneapolis Firefighters Relief Association in 2008. It accused the Fridley-based medical device maker of making misleading or false statements about the company's Infuse spine surgery device. Medtronic denies any wrongdoing.
The suit claims a digital thermostat made by Nest Labs - and sold by Best Buy - infringes on seven patents held by Honeywell. Honeywell says it will not stand by while competitors "infringe on our intellectual property." Best Buy did not comment.
