Brasseler U.S.A., I, L.P. v. Stryker Sales Corp.

ORDER

EDENFIELD, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this patent-infringement case, the accused infringers — defendants Stryker Corporation and Stryker Sales Corporation (collectively, Stryker) — successfully raised 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)’s “on-sale” defense. Stryker, claimed that plaintiff Brasseler, U.S.A. I, L.P.’s (Brasseler’s) patent for surgical saw blades is invalid because the blades’ inventors sold them — in violation of § 102(b)' — more than one year before Brasseler filed its patent application.

Brasseler insisted that no such sale occurred. Because the evidence showed that it did, the…