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Intellectual Property

Sep. 14, 2013

Skadden secures medical device patent win

Palo Alto-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates partner James J. Elacqua secured a win for a Minnesota-based medical device company on Thursday at the nation's top patent court.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Palo Alto-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates partner James J. Elacqua secured a win for a Minnesota-based medical device company on Thursday at the nation's top patent court.


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court ruling in Virginia that Medtronic Inc. did not infringe three method claims of a patent held by a Delaware-based manufa...

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