Healthcare Industry News: CoreValve
News Release - April 1, 2010
Federal Jury Finds Medtronic CoreValve Willfully Infringes Edwards' Transcatheter Valve Patent
IRVINE, CA--(HSMN NewsFeed) - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE:EW ), the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, announced that a federal jury today found that Edwards' U.S. Andersen transcatheter heart valve patent is valid and that Medtronic CoreValve LLC willfully infringes it. Edwards will move vigorously to enforce this verdict and intends to seek a permanent injunction. The jury also awarded Edwards $74 million in damages, and the willfulness finding allows Edwards to seek increased damages of up to three times that amount.The patent involved in this suit is part of the Andersen family of patents, which relates to a valve prosthesis for implantation by means of a catheter. Filed in February 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, this suit was directed at the manufacture or sale of the CoreValve ReValving System in the United States.
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Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company partners with clinicians to develop innovative technologies in the areas of structural heart disease and critical care monitoring that enable them to save and enhance lives. Additional company information can be found at www.edwards.com.
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