Adverse Final Judgment Won’t Be Reopened, Panel Rules In Patent Row

Mealey's (June 15, 2020, 1:14 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A denial by a New York federal judge of a patent owner’s request to reopen a 2014 adverse final judgment pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was neither legally erroneous nor an abuse of discretion, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled June 12 in a longstanding dispute over coronary stent patents (Medinol Ltd. v. Cordis Corporation, et al., No. 19-1826, Fed. Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 18614)....