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26 Aug, 2008 10:18 am
... have been using to alleviate SUI. The first is Mentor Corporation's ObTape, and the second is Ethicon's Tension-Free Vaginal Tape (TVT).
Both brands of tape use plastic mesh ... and migration of pieces of the plastic mesh within the patient's body. On the other hand, Ethicon's
Prolene based mesh TVT sling has shown slightly different tendencies. ... adverse event reports discussed above have shown, Mentor's ObTape and Ethicon's Gynecare TVT are more alike than they are different. Perhaps the FDA should ...
6 Nov, 2008 11:50 am
... /2004 to 09/18/2008 Caldera T-Sling 2 06/15/2004 to 11/26/2007 Ethicon Gynemesh PS (K013718) a/k/a/ Prolift Pelvic Floor 123 04/14/2004 to
03/02/2008 ... /2002 to 09/18/2008 Gynecare Secur 1 Single Report on October 4, 2007 TVT (See Ethicon, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson)
(K974098) 4 07/21/2003 to 10/04/2007 Johnson & Johnson Tension-Free Vaginal Tape (K974098) Also Medscand Medical Lab (Sweden), Ethicon,
Inc., Ethicon Sarl (Switzerland), 495 05/12/1999 to 02/27/2007 Mentor ObTape (K031767) 236 ...
22 Oct 12:32 pm
... s decision to affirmatively litigate its own patents in Delaware weakened its position on transfer: "The fact that Hologic initiated suit against Ethicon in this District - even though the parties were involved in other patent litigation concerning similar technology in the Southern District ... pending
litigation among the parties, which usually favors a transfer, can also stand as an impediment to obtaining a new forum. Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Inc. v. Hologic Inc., C.A. No. 09-580-JJF (D. Del. Oct. ...
30 Aug, 2006 4:08 pm
... other surgical products. A federal jury in Santa Ana, Calif., rejected claims by the Applied Medical Resources Corporation that the Ethicon
unit of Johnson & Johnson had blocked competition in the market for trocars, instruments used in so-called keyhole surgery. ... could have been tripled under antitrust laws. Applied
Medical, based in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., said Ethicon had taken away its sales by offering discounts on sutures to hospitals that also
bought the company's trocars and ...
9 Oct, 2007 4:17 pm
... a maker of medical imaging equipment, accusing it of violating four patents on a tumor-detection system. Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon
Endo-Surgery unit claims Hologic's ATEC surgical devices, used to perform breast biopsies to test for cancer, infringe ... Emerald, which it says infringe the four patents. The ATEC
devices, made by Hologic's Suros Surgical Systems Inc., compete with Ethicon's Mammotome breast biopsy line. Hologic bought Suros last year for
$240 million. See the full article and a ...
7 Nov, 2007 3:00 am
... the opportunity to amend their complaint against two local hospitals in accordance with the West Virginia Medical Professional Liability Act (MPLA), rather than suffer the dismissal
of their lawsuit for failure to comply with its provisions. Blankenship v. Ethicon, Inc., 2007 WL 30344262 (W.Va.). In 2003, the plaintiffs
filed suit against several defendants, including Charleston Area Medical Center and Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital, resulting from the implantation of contaminated sutures. ...
24 May, 2008 12:14 am
... 's latest surgical innovations to hospitals. But she and about two dozen other salespeople of J&J's Ethicon Endosurgery got into
trouble with federal authorities by selling inventory that hospitals no longer wanted on the gray market, an ... manufacturer as hospitals bought the newest and latest equipment. They
had to get rid of it, and there was a ton of it as the company, Ethicon, kept developing newer stuff. They took the old and sold it to doctors
and hospitals in third world countries. The ...
5 Sep, 2008 8:50 am
... two forums take different approaches in determining validity and on the same evidence could quite correctly come to different conclusions." Ethicon, 849 F.2d at 1428. Points lost on Lemley and Obama --> In civil litigation, a challenger ... 'valid,' only that the patent challenger did not carry
the 'burden of establishing invalidity in the particular case before the court.'" Ethicon, 849 F.2d at n.3 (internal citations omitted)
(emphasis in original). (...) In PTO examinations and reexaminations, ...
11 Mar, 2006 3:12 pm
... for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Justice Smith set out the tests for a stay as follows: It is common ground that the criteria to be satisfied by the AGBC in
order to succeed on the application are those set out in American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd., [1975] A.C. 396, adopted in Manitoba (Attorney
General) v. Metropolitan Stores (MTS) Ltd., [1987] 1 S.C.R. 110, and applied in RJR MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311 at 334: Metropolitan Stores ...
5 Jul, 2007 10:37 am
... Co., 669 P.2d 744, 748 (N.M. App. 1983); Perfetti v. McGahn Medical, 662 P.2d 646, 650 (N.M. App. 1983); Richards v. Upjohn Co., 625 P.2d 1192, 1195 (N.M. App. 1980); Hines v. St.
Joseph's Hospital, 527 P.2d 1075, 1077 (N.M. App. 1974). Texas: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Meyer, ___ S.W.3d ___, 2007 WL 1095552, at *2
(Tex. App. Apr. 12, 2007); Morgan v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 30 S.W.3d 455, 461-62 (Tex. App. 2000); Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Co. v. Medrano, 28 S.W.3d 87, 91 (Tex. App. 2000); ...
6 Jul, 2007 4:29 am
... sense if the rule hadn't been used much lately, or if there were a general trend away from it. That just hasn't happened. The rule is as routinely followed now as in prior years. So
far, in 2007 the rule has been chugging along at a clip of better than a case a month. See Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Meyer, ___ S.W.3d ___,
2007 WL 1095552, at *2 (Tex. App. April 12, 2007); Bodie v. Purdue Pharma LP, ___ F.3d ___, 2007 WL 1577964, at *5-6, 11 (11th Cir. June 1, 2007) (applying Alabama law); ...
12 Oct, 2007 8:04 pm
... of a peremptory strike to remove the only African-American juror from the jury panel where the juror announced that she could not be impartial because she had a close relationship
with two of the defense witnesses. Donna Joan Blankenship v. Ethicon, Inc., No. 33224, is a class action arising from defective surgical
sutures. The trial court dismissed the case for noncompliance with the Medical Professional Liability Act. The court found that the MPLA did apply, but that dismissal was unduly harsh
...
29 Jan, 2008 6:00 am
... being resold under a lease agreement are exempt under the sale for resale exemption, and (b) whether the plaintiff's purchases of mechanical maintenance services were exempt as
taxable services purchased in the performance of a real property contract for an exempt entity. Ethicon, Inc. v. Strayhorn, et al., Cause
Number GN304779, is a sales tax refund lawsuit that is set for trial on May 12th. It's described in the December case list as involving the issue of whether the plaintiff leased real
...
7 Feb, 2008 7:14 am
... ordinary meaning of the term "insert." Summary Judgment Opinion at 11. That this ordinary meaning has functional attributes does not change the fact that the claim recites a
structural component, albeit one possessed with certain understood characteristics. Cf. Greenberg v. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., 91 F.3d 1580,
1583 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (noting that structural elements can be "expressed in functional terms" and citing examples "such as 'filter,' 'brake,' 'clamp,' "screwdriver,' [and] 'lock'"). ...
3 Apr, 2008 7:27 am
... "even with the information which they have today. . .they would have prescribed" the drug to the plaintiff. This testimony was sufficient to rebut any "heeding presumption," to
defeat warning causation, and to entitle the defendant to summary judgment. Id. at 1310-12. In Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Meyer, ___ S.W.3d
___, 2007 WL 4462713 (Tex. App. Dec. 20, 2007), involving a surgical stapler, the doctor, an experienced surgeon, testified that "he did not need" the defendant manufacturer to ...
20 Apr, 2008 10:28 pm
... . The key issue before the court was whether or not the patentee, Roche was entitled to a temporary injunction restraining CIPLA from selling its version of Erlotinib, under the
brand Erlocip. Echoing the findings in an old British case, American Cyanamid Co vs Ethicon Ltd, the court held that a temporary injunction
would issue in favour of Roche, only if it proved the following: i) That it had a prima facie case ii) That the "balance of convenience" was in its favour iii) That it would suffer "
...
8 May, 2008 12:22 pm
... Id. at 150. The plaintiff's predictable testimony that she would not have taken the drug if that same warning had been passed along to her was therefore immaterial, since the no
different warning would have reached her. Id. And a couple of Texas cases: In Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Meyer, ___ S.W.3d ___, 2007 WL
4462713 (Tex. App. Dec. 20, 2007), the prescriber knew all about the risk from previous experience, and could not affirmatively testify that an additional warning would have changed ...
25 May, 2008 1:49 pm
Law.com: For six years, Kerri Kaley worked at a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, selling the company's latest surgical innovations to hospitals. But she and about two dozen other
salespeople of J&J's Ethicon Endosurgery got into trouble with federal authorities...
29 Apr, 2008 2:17 pm
... of the complaint, as well as to the title of the counts in the complaint, to determine whether the alleged injuries are covered by insurance. Illinois - Tews Funeral Home, Inc. v.
Ohio Cas. Ins. Co., 832 F.2d 1037, 1042 (7th Cir. 1987) (applying Illinois law); New Jersey - Ethicon, Inc. v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 737
F. Supp. 1320, 1327-29 (S.D.N.Y. 1990), dismissed, 805 F. Supp. 203 (S.D.N.Y. 1992), aff'd without opinion, 993 F.2d 1532 (2d Cir. 1993) (applying New Jersey law); New York - ...
7 Jun, 2008 7:41 pm
... FDA's highest warning level. In issuing the warning, the FDA does not advise health care professionals to discontinue prescribing the product, but they advise physicians to weight
the benefits against the risks for each patient. Regranex is manufactured by Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson. Regranex gel is
prescribed to treat dangerous foot and leg ulcers in patients who have diabetes. Approximately 750,000 people have been prescribed Regranex since it was approved by the RDA in 1997 ...
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