Medtronic Ave Inc., Medtronic Vascular, Inc., A/K/A Medtronic Vascular, Inc. v. Cordis Corporation

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by Cordis Corp. (“Cordis”), the defendant in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Medtronic AVE, Inc. (“Medtronic AVE”), requires us to decide whether Cordis’s claim that it has a license to use certain patents should be determined by an arbitrator. The District Court held that the dispute was not arbitrable, and enjoined arbitration. We will vacate and remand. Because the parties are fully familiar with the background facts and procedural history we need not set them forth, and limit our discussion to our ratio decidendi.1

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Medtronic AVE’s suit…