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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Colibri Heart Valve LLC v. Medtronic Corevalve, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2025)

The doctrine of equivalents (DOE), a creation of the Supreme Court in Graver Tank & Mfg. v. Linde Air Products (1950), is balanced by the concept of prosecution history estoppel (PHE), the contours of which were delineated...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Sad Tale of an On-Sale Bar Created by a “Business Associate”

The Federal Circuit recently reversed a lower court’s summary judgment that a medical device design patent was not invalid under the on-sale bar. As a result, the patent owner (Junker) lost the $1.25M infringement damages...more

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