Legal Opinion
Eli Lilly and Company v. Medtronic, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 18, 1989No. 88-1409PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
Medtronic, Inc., brings an interlocutory appeal from a permanent injunction 1 entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Eli Lilly & Co. v. Medtronic, Inc., No. 83-5393 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 21 1988) (Ditter, J.), enjoining it from, inter alia, the manufacture, use, or sale of certain medical devices, and from the use of data generated from such medical devices. Medtronic asserts that 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1) (Supp. Ill 1985) permits the use it is making of its medical devices, namely, for testing and obtaining certain approval by the Food…
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