Surgery Tool Maker Sues Rival Over Drill Guide Patent

Clearwater-based Orthopedic Development Corporation (ODC), the maker of the TruFUSE® spinal surgery system, has accused a rival of infringing both the patent and trade dress for a drill guide in one of the first patent design suits to be filed since the Federal Circuit handed down its standard-altering Egyptian Goddess ruling.
ODC lodged the suit, as [...]

Q-Med Gives Notice to 50 of the Co-Workers in Uppsala

As has been previously announced, Q-Med has decided to focus on the esthetics business. Sales and marketing of Hospital Healthcare products will be done via partners and there will be no further in-house development of new products within this area. This change leads to redundancies at Q-Med’s facility in Uppsala. Despite the fact that Q-Med [...]