Vascular Solutions LLC et al v. Medtronic, Inc et al

  1. December 16, 2024

    Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To 2024's Most Memorable Moments

    One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.

  2. October 28, 2024

    Judge Leaves Patent Case After Fed. Circ. Undoes Ruling

    A Minnesota federal judge has recused himself from a patent dispute between Teleflex and Medtronic he has handled since 2019, saying he was "at a loss" on how to proceed after the Federal Circuit faulted his interpretation of terms in Teleflex's catheter patents.

  3. March 21, 2024

    Teleflex Catheter Patent Makes It Through Fed. Circ.

    The Federal Circuit on Thursday opted to leave untouched an administrative patent board ruling that rejected a legal effort to invalidate a patent covering a type of catheter that's sold by Teleflex. 

  4. December 14, 2023

    IP Forecast: Del. Judge To Hear Kidney Drug Case

    As the year winds down, a Delaware federal judge is set to oversee a trial over a major Japanese pharmaceutical company's claims that an Indian rival's efforts to market a generic version of a blockbuster kidney disease treatment infringe its patents. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  5. May 24, 2023

    Fed. Circ. Splits On When Exactly A Catheter Was Invented

    The Federal Circuit on Wednesday split on the question of when in the mid-2000s a medical device company in the suburbs of Minneapolis developed a new kind of catheter, ultimately sinking a Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenge from a larger rival in Minnesota.