Applied Medical Allowed To Take Willfulness Claim To Jury

Knobbe Martens announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in favor of its client Applied Medical Resources Corp. in its patent infringement case against U.S. Surgical Corp. and Tyco Healthcare Group. As a result of the decision, Applied Medical may present to the jury at trial its claim that U.S. Surgical and Tyco Healthcare willfully infringed its patent on medical devices known as trocars. Applied has previously proved the defendants willfully infringed at two earlier trials. The latest decision was one of the first since the Federal Circuit's landmark ruling in In re Seagate to explain the kind of evidence sufficient to allow a willfulness claim to go to trial. For more information on this decision as reported by IP Law 360, go to Applied Medical Clears Seagate Test In Tyco Case.