Surgeon sues J&J’s DePuy in royalties dispute (MassDevice)
A surgeon who helped Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Synthes Spine develop instruments and implants for spine procedures wants a Massachusetts federal court to overturn an arbitrator’s ruling that the company doesn’t owe royalties on the products, according to a lawsuit filed last week in the Bay State.
Dr. Carl Lauryssen and his company, Jordan Consulting, helped develop the Mountaineer OCT spinal system and thethe C1 drill guide for occipito-cervico-thoracic spinal fusion procedures. The parties inked the development deal in 2003, but by November 2014 the arrangement had soured, leading Lauryssen and Jordan to file for arbitration. They alleged that DePuy breached the contract by underpaying royalties owed on the Mountaineer system and failing to pay royalties for the C1 drill guide, according to an Oct. 27 complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.
DePuy’s counterclaim alleged that the royalties arrangement ended in March 2010 and sought to recoup royalties paid to Jordan and Lauryssen. Last month the arbitrator denied all of Jordan and Lauryssen’s claims and agreed that the royalty deal ...
