Healthcare Industry News: AGA Medical
News Release - March 29, 2010
Medtronic and AGA Medical Settle Patent Dispute
MINNEAPOLIS--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT ), today announced the settlement of a lawsuit it initiated against AGA Medical Corp. in 2007 for infringement of Medtronic’s Jervis patent family.Patents in the Jervis patent family, the last of which is scheduled to expire in 2018, cover the use of stress to restrain certain self-expanding medical devices made of nitinol. Nitinol is a shape-memory metal alloy frequently used in medical device applications, including Medtronic’s own transcatheter coronary heart valve program.
Medtronic has widely licensed the Jervis patent family to medical device manufacturers in the United States and will continue to offer licenses to this important technology.
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Medtronic, Inc. (www.medtronic.com), headquartered in Minneapolis, is the global leader in medical technology – alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world.
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