Legal Opinion
Hess v. Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 18, 1997No. 96-1066PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal challenges the decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that the materials and suggestions the appellant Robert L. Hess provided to the listed inventors of a patent did not make him a co-inventor of the patented device. We affirm.
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A United States Patent No. 4,323,071 (the ’071 patent), which listed Drs. John B. Simpson and Edward W. Robert as the inventors, covers a balloon angioplasty catheter that is inserted into a patient’s artery which has a partial blockage, or stenosis. The balloon, fitted to the…
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