Here are three updates in spine patent cases since April.
1. NuVasive infringed five patents from a spine surgeon, a jury determined. The jury ruled that screw assemblies from the Reline, Armada and VuePoint lines infringe combinations of five patents from Roger Jackson, MD.
2. Life Spine owes Globus Medical $9.5 million for infringing a patent related to parts used in expandable spinal fusion devices. The jury ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit that Globus Medical filed in Delaware District Court. Globus Medical alleged that Life Spine’s ProLift products infringed its Caliber line of expandable intervertebral implants.
3. DePuy Synthes, Johnson and Johnson’s orthopedic company, lost its bid to prove they invented a spinal fusion device before RSB Spine, according to an opinion issued in the U.S. District Court for Delaware.
