April 28, 2026
Medical device company Teleflex and Medtronic have reached a settlement to end a catheter patent dispute from which a judge recused himself after explaining he was "at a loss" on how to proceed.
December 16, 2024
One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.
October 28, 2024
A Minnesota federal judge has recused himself from a patent dispute between Teleflex and Medtronic he has handled since 2019, saying he was "at a loss" on how to proceed after the Federal Circuit faulted his interpretation of terms in Teleflex's catheter patents.
March 21, 2024
The Federal Circuit on Thursday opted to leave untouched an administrative patent board ruling that rejected a legal effort to invalidate a patent covering a type of catheter that's sold by Teleflex.
December 14, 2023
As the year winds down, a Delaware federal judge is set to oversee a trial over a major Japanese pharmaceutical company's claims that an Indian rival's efforts to market a generic version of a blockbuster kidney disease treatment infringe its patents. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
May 24, 2023
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday split on the question of when in the mid-2000s a medical device company in the suburbs of Minneapolis developed a new kind of catheter, ultimately sinking a Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenge from a larger rival in Minnesota.