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Biomet Announces Federal Circuit Ruling in Its Lawsuit against Medtronic Sofamor Danek

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, April 6th, 2007

Biomet, Inc. (NASDAQ:BMET) reported today on a ruling issued this week by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the ongoing patent infringement litigation between Cross Medical Products, Inc. (a Biomet subsidiary), Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc. and Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA, Inc.

The Federal Circuit vacated a summary judgment ruling previously issued in Medtronic's favor by the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The district court had ruled that Medtronic's spinal implant polyaxial screws marketed under the names MAS, M8, M10, Sextant, Vertex, Legacy 4.5 and Legacy 5.5 did not infringe claim 7 of Cross's U.S....

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