Sep 22, 2011
Kirkland, Dewey Win $101 Million Jury Verdict for Medtronic in Spinal Implant Patent Case
After two weeks of trial in an infringement suit over patents for spinal implants used in back surgery, lawyers for Medtronic convinced a California jury to award a subsidiary nearly $102 million, but defendant NuVasive collected its own much smaller award and vowed to fight the verdict.