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SPECTRALYTICS, INC. v. CORDIS CORP.

No. 05-CV-1464 PJS/RLE.

576 F.Supp.2d 1030 (2008)

SPECTRALYTICS, INC., Plaintiff, v. CORDIS CORPORATION and Norman Noble, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota.

September 15, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Goggin, Alan G. Carlson, R.J. Zayed, Dennis C. Bremer, and Russell J. Rigby, Carlson Caspers Vandenburgh & Lindquist, P.A., for plaintiff Spectralytics, Inc.

Gregory L. Diskant, Michael J. Timmons, and Richard O. Jackson, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP; Joseph W. Anthony and Courtland C. Merrill, Anthony Ostlund & Baer, P.A., for defendant Cordis Corporation.

James B. Niehaus and Christopher C. Koehler, Frantz Ward LLP; John Edward Connelly and Lee M. Pulju, Faegre & Benson LLP, for defendant Norman Noble, Inc.

ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

PATRICK J. SCHILTZ, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

On October 24, 1996, Gary Gustafson filed a patent application covering an apparatus for cutting metal tubing with a laser. The application issued on December 22, 1998 as United States Patent No. 5,852,277 (the '277 patent). The patented apparatus is specifically designed for cutting stents, which are short, thin-walled, perforated sections of metal tubing...

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