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Client Alert: FTC Challenges Medical Device Coating Transaction

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On March 7, 2025, the FTC filed a complaint in federal court seeking to block GTCR BC Holdings, LLC, a Chicago private equity firm, from acquiring Surmodics, Inc. The FTC alleges that Surmodics is the leading provider of a...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Every Little One, Every Little One: FDA Issues a Warning Letter to a Medical Device Reprocessor for Changes to Marketed Products

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“Every little one, every little one,” a song lyric from Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s 1986 single, “Every Little Kiss,” comes to mind when we read a recent Food and Drug Administration Warning Letter issued to a reprocessor...more

Stinson LLP

Medical Device Third-Party Servicers: Will FDA Treat You as a Manufacturer?

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Recently, in response to requests by stakeholders, FDA extended the deadline for comments to its draft guidance "Remanufacturing of Medical Devices," which provides the agency's current thinking regarding the distinction...more

Hogan Lovells

“Remanufacturing” or “Servicing”? New FDA guidance clarifies distinction for medical devices

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On June 18, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the draft guidance “Remanufacturing of Medical Devices,” which aims to help clarify the point when manipulation or repair of a medical device becomes...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

How Much Control Do Device Manufacturers Have Over Servicing?

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In December, my colleague Aaron Josephson and I described our observations after attending FDA’s public workshop on Medical Device Servicing and Remanufacturing Activities. In this post, I want to share some additional...more

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The MHRA issues new guidance concerning Own Brand Labelling or "Virtual Manufacturing"

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On 29 March 2017, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published a new guidance (hereafter “Guidance“) concerning the Own Brand Labelling of medical devices in the United Kingdom. The Guidance,...more

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FDA Still Seeking Manufacturer Views on Medical Device ISO Regulation

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On March 4, 2016, the FDA issued notice in the Federal Register that it had opened a docket to accept comments on the agency’s proposed plan to address the refurbishing, remarketing, rebuilding, remanufacturing, and servicing...more

Knobbe Martens

Greatbatch, Inc. Completes $1.73 Billion Acquisition

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Greatbatch, Inc. recently announced that it has acquired Lake Region Medical (previously known as Accellent Inc.) pursuant to a deal valued at about $1.73 billion.  Reuters reports that Greatbatch will pay $478 million in...more

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