Mealey's (January 25, 2019, 2:17 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Texas federal judge’s post-trial decision to uphold a jury’s finding of patent validity and infringement will stand, thanks to a Jan. 24 ruling by a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in favor of the inventor of two patents relating to spinal surgery methods and systems (Dr. Mark Barry v. Medtronic Inc., No. 17-2463, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 2305)....