Medical Device Maker Defends Compression Clip Patent On Appeal

(August 30, 2019, 8:33 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a July 22 cross-appellant brief, Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. urges the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that five claims in its medical device patent are nonobvious but says the board nonetheless erred in deeming unpatentable five other claims of the same patent (Cook Group Inc. v. Boston Scientific Scimed Inc., Nos. 19-1413, -1422, Fed. Cir.)....