Boston Scientific has settled three patent disputes with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for $1.73 billion.
To better study the efficacy of the Combo Bio-engineered Sirolimus Eluting Stent, OrbusNeich has announced that a clinical trial to evaluate the success of the stent is underway in patients with symptomatic, ischemic heart disease.
New Jersey radiologist Bruce N. Saffran, MD, who was awarded about $500 million in a 2008 patent infringement case against Boston Scientific, filed suit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over Abbott's Xience V everolimus-eluting coronary stent.
Boston Scientific has received approval from the FDA to market its Taxus Liberte Atom paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system, a drug-eluting stent (DES) designed for treating small coronary vessels, as small as 2.25 mm in diameter.
Boston Scientific has received approval from the FDA to market its second-generation Taxus Liberte paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system.
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The everolimus-eluting stent is better than the second-generation paclitaxel-eluting stent (Taxus Liberte, Boston Scientific) in unselected patients undergoing PCI in terms of safety and efficacy, concluded the COMPARE trial that was published Jan. 7 in Lancet. Based on these findings, the authors suggest that paclitaxel-eluting stents should no longer be used in everyday clinical practice.
Boston Scientific will pay Cordis $716.3 million to resolve more than a dozen lawsuits over the Palmaz infringement suit relating to Boston Scientific’s NIR stent and several other cardiology cases relating to patents in the Ding, Kastenhofer, Palmaz and Fontirroche patent families, and exchanging paid-up licenses for certain intellectual properties.
Boston Scientific has received FDA approval to market its Taxus Liberte Long paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system, a drug-eluting stent (DES) designed for long lesions.
Boston Scientific has submitted to the FDA the final modules of its pre-market approval (PMA) applications for both its Taxus Liberte Atom paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system and its Taxus Liberte Long paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system.
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