Medical Designs, Inc. v. Donjoy, Inc.

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

ENRIGHT, District Judge.

BACKGROUND

This is a patent infringement case brought by Medical Designs, Inc., the inventor of a knee brace device, against Don-joy, Inc., the alleged infringer. The suit was filed in the Northern District of Texas in November 1987 and transferred to this district by stipulation in December 1988.

Medical Designs contended that in early 1980, one of its owners, Gary Bledsoe, conceived and reduced to practice a knee brace *1081that attached to the leg via Velcro tabs and allowed an adjustable range of motion for recuperating patients (“Bledsoe…