Legal Opinion
Allied Orthopedic Appliances Inc. v. Tyco Health Care Group LP
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 6, 2010No. 08-56314, 08-56315PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs in this antitrust suit are a group of hospitals and other health care providers that purchased pulse oximetry sensors from Tyco Healthcare Group LP after November 2003. They allege that they overpaid for the sensors because Tyco used two kinds of marketing agreements to foreclose competition from generic sensor manufacturers in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. They also allege that by introducing OxiMax, a patented pulse oximetry system that is incompatible with generic sensors, Tyco unlawfully maintained its monopoly over the…
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