C. R. Bard, Inc.
Court Rules in Favor of Bard on Patent Infringement Suit against W. L. Gore & Associates
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, August 22nd, 2008
C. R. Bard, Inc. (NYSE: BCR) announced that a U.S. District Court in Arizona entered judgment in Bard's favor in its patent infringement suit against W. L. Gore & Associates. The Court ruled that Gore failed to prove that Bard's patent number 6,436,135 was unenforceable due to inequitable conduct. As previously announced, on December 11, 2007, a jury found that Gore willfully infringed Bard's patent through the sale of Gore's ePTFE vascular grafts and stent-grafts, and awarded Bard $185 million in past damages.
Gore may file post-trial motions with the court and may appeal the judgment to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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