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MEDTRONIC, INC. v. GUIDANT CORP.

No. CIV.03-848-SLR.

378 F.Supp.2d 503 (2005)

MEDTRONIC INC., Plaintiff, v. GUIDANT CORPORATION, Guidant Sales Corporation, Eli Lilly & Company, Mirowski Family Ventures L.L.C., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

July 19, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen Jacobs Louden, Philip Bangle, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Boulder, CO (Steven C. Schroer, of counsel), Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Chicago, IL (Timothy E. Levstik, Mark A. Borsos, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Federick L. Cottrell, III, Anne Shea Gaza, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, Alexandria, VA (Arthur I. Neustadt, of counsel), Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Washington, DC (J. Michael Jakes, Kathleen A. Daley, Kara F. Stoll, of counsel), for defendants.

OPINION

SUE L. ROBINSON, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On August 29, 2003, plaintiff Medtronic, Incorporated filed this declaratory judgment action against defendants Guidant Corporation, Guidant Sales Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company and Mirowski Family Ventures. (D.I.1) Plaintiff's complaint alleges that claims 15-26 of U.S. Patent No. RE38,119 ("the RE'119 patent") are invalid.1 (Id.) On September...

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