Legal Opinion
Spectralytics, Inc. v. CORDIS CORPORATION
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided September 4, 2009No. Case 05-CV-1464 (PJS/RLE)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON POST-TRIAL MOTIONS
PATRICK J. SCHILTZ, District Judge.
This matter was tried to a jury, which found that defendants Cordis Corporation (“Cordis”) and Norman Noble, Inc. (“Noble”) 1 willfully infringed United States Patent No. 5,852,277 (the '277 patent). The '277 patent is owned by plaintiff Spectralytics, Inc. and covers an apparatus for cutting a piece of metal tubing with a laser to make a stent. The jury further found that the '277 patent was not invalid for obviousness. The jury awarded Spectralytics $22.35 million in compensatory damages for Cordis’s infringement, an award that…
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