Medtronic Wins Appeal in Patent Dispute with Biomet

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Medtronic in its on-going patent litigation against Cross Medical Products, Inc., a subsidiary of Biomet, Inc. (BMET). In its decision, the appeals court ruled that Medtronic's current multi-axial pedicle screw products do not infringe any claim of Cross Medical's U.S. Patent No. 5,474,555. Those Medtronic products include the CD HORIZON(R) LEGACY(TM), VERTEX(R) and CD HORIZON(R) SEXTANT(R) multi-axial screw products. With this significant ruling, Medtronic is free to continue to sell these products.

"We are pleased that the Federal Circuit appellate court...

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