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CORDIS CORP. v. MEDTRONIC, INC.

No. 87-1186.

835 F.2d 859 (1987)

CORDIS CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MEDTRONIC, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

December 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Granger Cook, Jr., Cook, Wetzel & Egan, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., argued for plaintiff-appellee. With him on the brief was Stephen B. Heller. Also on the brief was Henry W. Collins, Cordis Corp., Miami, Fla., of counsel.

Robert R. Edell, Merchant, Gould, Smith, Edell, Welter & Schmidt, P.A., of Minneapolis, Minn., argued for defendant-appellant. With him on the brief was Albert L. Underhill. Also on the brief was Joseph F. Breimayer, Senior Patent Counsel, Medtronic, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn., of counsel.

Before BISSELL, Circuit Judge, MILLER, Senior Circuit Judge, and ARCHER, Circuit Judge.

BISSELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2 USPQ2d 1845 (1986), preliminarily enjoining Medtronic, Inc. (Medtronic) from terminating its license agreement with Cordis Corporation (Cordis) for the manufacture, sale, and use of tined leads, pending the outcome of the underlying action. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Cordis, a manufacturer of medical devices, has been making and supplying cardiac...

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