This week in Pedersen’s POV, our senior editor revisits the trend of mega mergers in the medical device industry through a ...

Photo of Abbott's TriClip device, designed to repair leaky tricuspid valves in a transcatheter procedure, without the need for open heart surgery.

Photo of Abbott's TriClip device, designed to repair leaky tricuspid valves in a transcatheter procedure, without the need for open heart surgery.

Photo of Abbott's TriClip device, designed to repair leaky tricuspid valves in a transcatheter procedure, without the need for open heart surgery.

Photo of Abbott's TriClip device, designed to repair leaky tricuspid valves in a transcatheter procedure, without the need for open heart surgery.

This week marks an important anniversary in medtech: The 11th anniversary of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) being approved by FDA. The agency announced on November 2, 2011 that it had ...

Trelleborg recently announced that its Engineered Coated Fabrics manufacturing facility in Nottingham, England, has received a patent for its Dartex Zoned Coatings. The coatings give the ability to ...

Illumina and BGI are due for a showdown in a German Court in the near future. San Diego-based Illumina said it has filed a patent infringement suit against one of BGI Group’s subsidiaries Latvia MGI ...

Retractable Technologies, Inc. (RTI) brought a case against medical device giant Becton Dickinson (now BD) in June 2007. The smaller company alleged that BD's Integra syringes infringed on RTI patents ...

Vyaire Medical is selling its consumables business to SunMed, a manufacturer and distributor of consumable medical devices for anesthesia and respiratory care. The Vyaire consumables portfolio ...

Conformis said it has entered into a settlement agreement with Stryker regarding a patent dispute. The settlement calls for Stryker to make a one-time payment to the Billerica, MA-based company and be ...

A jury has ordered Nevro to pay Boston Scientific $20 million in a patent infringement case. The Delaware jury found Nevro had infringed on two of the Marlborough, MA-based company’s patents related ...