Legal Opinion
Spectralytics, Inc. v. Cordis Corp.
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided September 15, 2008No. 05-CV-1464 PJS/RLEPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
PATRICK J. SCHILTZ, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
On October 24, 1996, Gary Gustafson filed a patent application covering an apparatus for cutting metal tubing with a laser. The application issued on December 22, 1998 as United States Patent No. 5,852,277 (the '277 patent). The patented apparatus is specifically designed for cutting stents, which are short, thin-walled, perforated sections of metal tubing that are implanted in fluid-carrying tubes in the body — generally arteries, but also veins, ducts, and ureters, among other things — to keep those…
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