Innovator Johnson & Johnson announced that a U.S. court (U.S. District Court in Wilmington) has awarded the company $1.2 billion in an 11-year old patent battle with Medtronic Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp. over devices that prop open heart arteries after they're cleared of fat. Medtronic was ordered to pay infringement damages worth about $521 million and Boston Scientific to pay about $703 million in the dispute over the patent for the Palmaz balloon expandable stent.
The companies had been fighting over the basic technology for heart stents, tiny mesh tubes inserted in arteries. Johnson & Johnson's patents have expired and the specific stents involved in the case are no longer sold, yet the companies were still arguing over details about the patents and the question of whether a new trial on damages should be held.
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