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... v AT&T Corp.), an en banc decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday has again narrowed the reach of U.S. patent laws covering companies' overseas production and sales. In Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. v. St. Jude Medical Inc., the Federal Circuit determined that patents for "methods or processes" are not subject to 35 U.S.C. § 271(f), and thus cannot give rise to patent infringement ...

... to read the Eighth Circuit's short (ten-page) decision in In re St. Jude Medical, Inc., Silzone Heart Valve Prods. Liab. Litig., No. 06-3860, ... . Apr. 9. 2008) (link). Sometimes good things come in small packages. St. Jude recalled all Silzone prosthetic heart valves that had not yet been ... the trial court's certification of a subclass of plaintiffs seeking injunctive relief in the form of medical monitoring, because the issues were too individualized for classwide treatment. And the Eighth Circuit ...

... , recognizes extensive express preemption in product liability litigation involving PMA approved medical devices - ending years of litigation on the point with a clear-cut defense victory. It's a ... We blogged about the Colacicco decision here, here, and here. 4. In re St. Jude Medical, Inc., 522 F.3d 836 (8th Cir. 2008). Any ... be extended to prescription drug product liability litigation. The court's rationale is applicable to medical monitoring in any state. We discussed Ratliff here. 10. Perry v. ...

... 't find any law, pro or con, concerning independent, no-injury medical monitoring claims in New Hampshire. New York New York's highest ... 1997). North Carolina An appellate court in North Carolina refused to recognize an independent medical monitoring claim in an environmental contamination case, because that was "a task within the purview of the legislature ... Tennessee law would not recognize an independent claim for medical monitoring. Bostick v. St. Jude Medical, Inc., 2004 WL 3313614, at *14 (W.D ...

According to Bloomberg News, Boston Scientific Corp., Medtronic Inc., and five other companies have been accused of promoting surgical devices for unapproved uses and cheating the federal ... the use of illegal kickbacks and other improper means) to entice physicians to use their products for off-label purposes." Similar complaints have been filed accusing Medtronic, St. Jude Medical Inc., and Endoscopic Technologies Inc. of improperly marketing surgical ablation devices in order to increase sales. ...

... medical devices. Instead, the hits just keep on coming. The latest is Blunt v. Medtronic, Inc., 2007 Wisc. App. Lexis 667 (Wis. App. July 31, 2007). ... the device; A complete description of the properties of the device relevant to diagnosis and treatment of a disease or medical condition; The results of all nonclinical laboratory studies (including microbiological, toxicological, immunological, ... 451 F.3d 104 (2d Cir. 2006); Gomez v. St. Jude Medical Daig Division, Inc., 442 F.3d 919 (5th Cir. 2006); ...

... decision, Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., 128 S.Ct. 999 (2008), which held that under the express preemption clause of the Medical Devices Amendment of 1976 (MDA), ... recent phenomena since the mid 1990s, after the Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504, 517, 112 S.Ct. 2608, 2618 ... FDA. He provided anecdotal background with what he represented as an example of a man who was implanted with a St. Jude pacemaker that allegedly was subjected to a recall and resulted in additional surgical procedures ...

... inflicting) punishment that we are, we've decided to create another scorecard to replace medical device preemption. What follows is a list - that we'll keep current as best we ... tuberculosis test is not sufficient injury. A further appeal was denied. In re St. Jude Medical, Inc. Silzone Heart Valves Products Liability Litigation, 2003 WL ... sufficient injury where significant exposure is not established. Buckland v. Threshold Enterprises, Inc., 2006 WL 5574742 (Cal. Super. June 19, 2006). Having lawyer ...

It only took five years and two reversals on appeal, see In re St. Jude Medical, Inc., 425 F.3d 1116, 1119-21 (8th Cir. 2005); ... Inc., 522 F.3d 836 (8th Cir. 2008), but the class action allegations in the St. Jude/Silzone litigation are finally history. The trial court reluctantly ("on a blank slate" the court ... Eighth Circuit would permit a third Rule 23(f) interlocutory appeal. The long-running St. Jude saga is an excellent example of why class-action tolling of the statute of limitations in mass ...

... claims headlining the news. As background, plaintiffs filed an amended complaint against multiple parties, including St. Jude Medical, Inc. and several of its officers, alleging that the defendants stuffed various channels for St. Jude's ... cardioverter defribrillators (ICDs), which led to overstating revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2006. Plaintiffs also alleged that "St. Judge's management knew, but failed to disclose or recklessly disregarded the fact that, in overstuffing its ...