BIONX IMPLANTS, INC. v. LINVATEC CORP.

No. 98 Civ. 7360(JSR).

99 F.Supp.2d 396 (2000)

BIONX IMPLANTS, INC.; Bionx Implants, Oy; and Dr. Saul N. Schreiber, Plaintiffs, v. LINVATEC CORP., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 31, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Loughnane, Richard Mayer, Paul Richter, Jr., Kenyon & Kenyon, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

John J. Normile, Bruce Barker, Claudia Zumbro, Pennie & Edmonds, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

RAKOFF, District Judge.

As every sometime athlete is acutely aware, tears to the menisci — the gristle-like structures that act as shock absorbers to the knees — are painfully common. Until relatively recently, the form of suture commonly used in repairing such tears was a large surgical staple. In 1989, however, plaintiff Saul N. Schreiber, M.D., patented a smaller, less cumbersome alternative known as the Bionx Meniscus...

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