Cook Medical Sells Lead Management Portfolio to Merit Medical
Cook Medical recently announced it is selling its lead management portfolio to Merit Medical. Cook Medical is a medical device manufacturer with a portfolio of products used in lead management...
Test Anxiety: FDA Issues Warning Letters to Test Laboratories
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued warning letters to two third-party nonclinical testing laboratories. The FDA cited the laboratories for “oversight failures and animal care violations that raise...
Getinge Acquires Paragonix Technologies
Getinge, a Swedish public limited company, announced on September 11, 2024 that it completed acquisition of Paragonix Technologies, Inc., a U.S. company specializing in organ transport products and services. According...
ARPA-H Announces New Funding related to AI-Enabled Medical Tools
The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced new funding for a “program to help AI-enabled medical tools maintain peak performance.” The new funding is through the Performance and...
Parent (Un)Trap: Most Parent Patents Cannot Be Invalidated By Their Children Because Of PTA
Medical device companies are often well versed in prosecuting multiple patents within a single “family.” Indeed, such families are often of significant value to early stage (and later stage) medical...
GE HealthCare Announces Deals in AI
GE HealthCare on July 25th, 2024, announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop purpose-built foundation models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. According to the GE HealthCare...
Dr. Jeff Shuren, FDA CDRH Director, to Retire
On July 23, 2024, Dr. Jeff Shuren, the director for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), announced that he will retire. Dr. Shuren became director of the CDRH...
Edwards Lifesciences to Acquire Innovalve
Edwards Lifesciences recently announced that it would acquire Innovalve Bio Medical, an early-stage transcatheter mitral valve replacement (“TMVR”) company. Edwards had the option to acquire Innovalve following an initial investment...
FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Ban in Doubt
On April 23, 2024, the United States Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), via a 3-2 vote, issued a final rule, which, according to the FTC’s rule summary, provides a comprehensive ban...
Boston Scientific Agrees to Acquire Silk Road Medical in $1.16B Deal
Press releases report that Boston Scientific (BSX) has entered an agreement to acquire medical device developer Silk Road Medical in a deal totaling $1.16 billion. Silk Road Medical has reportedly...
Delaware Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Seeking To Block Liquidia’s YUTREPIA Launch
The United States District Court for the District of Delaware recently denied United Therapeutics Corporation‘s motion for a preliminary injunction. The motion sought to prevent Liquidia Technologies, Inc. from launching...
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Announces Acquisition of Edwards Lifesciences’ Critical Care
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has announced the acquisition of Edwards Lifesciences’ Critical Care product group for $4.2 billion. The acquisition follows Edwards’ previously announced plans to spin off Critical...
