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Intellectual Property

Apr. 16, 2014

Irvine heart valve company obtains rare injunction

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. obtained a preliminary sales ban against a line of artificial heart valves produced by Minnesota-based rival Medtronic Inc.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences Corp. has won a preliminary sales ban against a line of artificial heart valves produced by Minnesota-based rival Medtronic Inc.


The timing of the injunction is especially important, as Medtronic had just obtained regulatory approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell its CoreValve Generation 3 devices earlier this year. Edwards Lifesciences AG v. Core...

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