Spinal Kinetics Defends Synthes Spine Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Spinal Kinetics Wins Another Round in Synthes’ Patent Litigation (HealthCareGlobal) Spinal Kinetics, Inc., the designer and manufacturer of the innovative M6 Artificial Disc, today announced that the German District Court in Mannheim has dismissed Synthes’ patent infringement claim involving German utility model No. DE 20321645U1 against Spinal Kinetics. The court also ordered that certain litigation costs [...]

MAKO Surgical Is Sued by Investors for Failing to Disclose a Business Downturn

MAKO Surgical Sued in Florida (Walter Eisner @ OTW) Well that didn’t take long. Just a few days after MAKO Surgical Corporation announced that it missed consensus revenue and earnings estimates, a shareholder filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the company, along with its President and CEO, Maurice [...]

All Eyes on DePuys “Bellwether Trial” for Metal-on-Metal Hip Lawsuits

“Bellwether Trial” for DePuy ASR Hip Lawsuits (Walter Eisner @ OTW) More than 6,000 lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts by patients who claim they were harmed by DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.’s ASR metal-on-metal hip. Lawyers have now agreed in front of a federal judge to conduct a “bellwether trial,” to help determine potential [...]

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Medtronic Pays $85M to Settle Investor Class Action Lawsuit Regarding Infuse Profits

Medtronic to settle suit for $85 million (Star Tribune) Medtronic said Friday that it has agreed to settle a federal securities class action lawsuit that alleged the company misled investors regarding its Infuse bone-growth device. The settlement is for $85 million, and Medtronic denied in a statement “that it made any misrepresentations or omissions or that [...]

DePuy Unloaded ASR Hip Implant Inventory Before Recall Was Initiated

DePuy Unloads ASR Hip Implant Inventory After Problems Were Known (BlogInjury) In 2009 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson decided to sell all the hip implants in its inventories before discontinuing the product. An article to be published in tormorrow’s New [...]

Families Sue Synthes After Deaths During Unapproved Bone Cement Clinical Trial

Families Sue Synthes Over Bone Cement (Walter Eisner @ OTW) The families of two patients who died during surgery that used an unapproved Synthes, Inc. bone cement are suing. A lawsuit, filed against the company and former company executives in early March in California’s Contra Costa Superior Court, alleges that 83-year olds Ryoichi Kikuchi and Barbara [...]

More Shareholders Sue Medtronic Over Infuse Claims

More shareholders sue Medtronic over Infuse claims (MassDevice) Another lawsuit is lodged against Medtronic accusing its officers and directors of falsely inflating its stock value through off-label promotion of its Infuse bone growth protein. Medtronic found itself at the center of another shareholder lawsuit accusing it of artificially boosting its stock price and forcing the company [...]

ASR Hip Implants Have Been Rejected in the U.S., but Are Still Sold Overseas

    ASR hip implants, rejected in U.S., still sold overseas  (MassDevice) A new report reveals that Johnson & Johnson continued overseas sales of its metal-on-metal ASR hip implants after the FDA rejected them for the U.S. market. Johnson & Johnson’s metal-on-metal hip implants stayed on the market in Europe and other countries after they were rejected for [...]

2nd Ex-Wright Employee Files Suit From Wrongful Discharge

     Second Ex-Wright Employee Files Suit (Walter Eisner @ OTW) A second former Wright Medical Technology Inc. senior executive has filed a lawsuit against the company for, “breach of contract and retaliatory discharge.” OTW has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed on January 5 by Cary Hagan, the company’s former vice president, Commercial Operations for [...]

Sales Reps From Stryker Biotech Escape Federal Charges in Off-Label Marketing Lawsuit

     Stryker Biotech reps get off clean in off-label marketing suit (MassDevice) Federal prosecutors drop all charges against the 2 remaining Stryker Biotech sales reps after the company pleaded guilty to charges of off-label marketing and agreed to pay a $15 million fine. Federal prosecutors dropped all charges against the 2 remaining Stryker Biotech sales [...]

Alphatec Spine Pays Biomet/Cross Medical $18M to Settle Licensing Dispute

       Alphatec Spine and Cross Medical Products Settle License Agreement Dispute (press release) CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan 5, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Alphatec Holdings, Inc. ATEC +0.58% , the parent company of Alphatec Spine, Inc., a medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders, with a focus on [...]

Synthes Sues Stryker Over Confidential Information Acquired From Former Employees

     Synthes division sues Stryker over secrets, hiring (Detroit Free Press) A division of Synthes, the world’s largest maker of bone-related medical devices, has sued Stryker, accusing the Kalamazoo-based firm of raiding its San Francisco sales force and using confidential information from former employees. Stryker seeks to obtain “an improper competitive advantage” in the industry [...]

ArthroCare to Settle Class Action Suits for $74M

     ArthroCare To Settle Class Action Suits For $74 Mln, Stock Up (Nasdaq) (RTTNews) – ArthroCare Corp. (ARTC) Monday said it reached an agreement in principle to settle the private securities class action suits pending against the company and two of its former officers for $74 million. In early morning trade, shares of ArthroCare gapped [...]

Stryker Sues DePuy, Wright and Zimmer Over Hip Implant Patent

    Stryker sues DePuy, Wright and Zimmer over hip implant patent (MassDevice) Stryker Corp. files a trio of lawsuits against rivals DePuy Orthopaedics, Wright Medical and Zimmer Holdings, accusing them of trespassing on its patent for a hip implant component. Stryker Corp. (NYSE:SYK) sued a trio of rivals last week, alleging that they infringe one [...]

Former Depuy Spokesmodel Sues the Company After Her ASR Hip Implant Failed

     Former Depuy spokesmodel sues after hip implant leaves her in crippling pain (MassDevice) Former gymnast and Depuy Orthopaedics “poster lady” Penny Brown says she feels guilty that she might have encouraged others to get the artificial hip implant that left her in pain. A former spokesmodel for Depuy has joined a U.K. lawsuit against [...]

J&J DePuy’S Pinnacle Total Hip Implant Complaints Are Mounting Up

      DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Complaints Mount    (NewsInferno) The FDA has been receiving a growing number of Adverse Event Reports (AERS) involving the all-metal version of DePuy Orthopaedics’ Pinnacle Hip Implant. According to a recent review of its AERS database, 709 Pinnacle Hip Implant AERs were reported in the last three months (July-September.) Of these, [...]

Infuse Bone-Growth Protein Lawsuits Are Starting to Pile Up for Medtronic

  Infuse lawsuits pile up for Medtronic | Legal News (MassDevice) A Florida woman is the latest in what’s sure to be a long line of plaintiffs filing personal injury lawsuits against Medtronic Inc. over its controversial Infuse bone morphogenetic protein. Personal injury lawsuits over its controversial Infuse bone-growth protein are beginning to pile up for [...]

Medtronic, NuVasive Spar Over Surgical Patent Infringement in Jury Trial

    Medtronic, NuVasive Spar Over Surgical Patent Infringement in Jury Trial  (Bloomberg) Medtronic Inc. (MDT) and NuVasive Inc., makers of medical devices for spinal surgery, are each seeking to convince a San Diego federal jury that the other infringed patents relating to products used in minimally invasive surgeries. Warsaw Orthopedic Inc., a unit of Minneapolis-based Medtronic, accuses San [...]

J&J DePuy’S Handling of the ASR Hip Recall Sparks Questions

        RPT-INSIGHT-DePuy’s handling of hip recall sparks questions (Reuters) J&J’s DePuy unit hires third party to handle recall Unusual move generates criticism from patients, lawyers DePuy faces more than 2,000 lawsuits in U.S. By Toni Clarke BOSTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), which could face billions of dollars in costs over [...]

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