{"id":37422,"date":"2013-07-12T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&p=37422"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:44:03","slug":"medtronic-faces-removal-of-corevalve-transcatheter-heart-valve-from-german-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/07\/12\/medtronic-faces-removal-of-corevalve-transcatheter-heart-valve-from-german-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic Faces Removal of CoreValve Transcatheter Heart Valve from German Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of a major patent decision,\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0will be forced to remove its CoreValve transcatheter heart valve from the German market.\u00a0Edwards Lifesciences\u00a0said today<\/a>\u00a0that a German Court had found that\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0infringed a key patent, known as the Spenser patent, and granted an injunction prohibiting the sale of CoreValve and CoreValve Evolut systems in Germany.<\/p>\n

Medtronic\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0it would appeal the decision and that the action “will limit options for physicians and their patients who need transcatheter aortic valve procedures, which\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0believes is contrary to sound health policy.”<\/p>\n

It should be noted that although the court found that\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0had infringed the Spenser patent, the validity of the patent itself is being contested. (In Germany the validity and infringement of patents are contested separately.) “Ultimately,”\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0said, it “believes that Edwards’ patent claims will be found to be invalid, which will negate today’s ruling of patent infringement.”<\/p>\n

But the court decision today means that\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0will be forced to withdraw from the German market after Edwards posts a bond.\u00a0\u00a0Edwards noted that the Spenser patent is also in place in France, Italy, Spain, and other countries, raising the possibility that\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0may be forced to withdraw from additional markets in the future. The German ruling does not affect the status of other\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0products in Germany such as the\u00a0Engager device, which is used for transapical procedures, and\u00a0the MelodyPulmonic Transcatheter Valve.<\/p>\n

Edwards and\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0are also engaged in litigation in the U.S. over a different Edwards patent, known as the\u00a0Andersen\u00a0patent. If Edwards prevails in the U.S.,\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0might not be able to enter the U.S. market until 2016, according to Wells Fargo analyst Larry Biegelsen.<\/p>\n

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In the wake of a major patent decision,\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0will be forced to remove its CoreValve transcatheter heart valve from the German market.\u00a0Edwards Lifesciences\u00a0said today\u00a0that a German Court had found that\u00a0Medtronic\u00a0infringed a key patent, known as the Spenser patent, and granted an injunction prohibiting the sale of CoreValve and CoreValve Evolut systems in Germany. Medtronic\u00a0said\u00a0it would appeal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[424,710,1882,423,770],"class_list":["post-37422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-aortic-valve-replacement","tag-corevalve","tag-patents","tag-tavi","tag-tavr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}