Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Stent Wars continue

Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis unit has again sued Boston Scientific Corp., claiming its Promus drug-coated stent wrongfully uses three of Cordis’s patents without permission.

J&J, the world’s largest health products company, asked for an order barring Boston Scientific’s infringement and for unspecified damages, in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Wilmington, Del. The Promus competes with J&J’s Cypher stent.

Boston Scientific’s “infringing sales have reduced Cordis’s Cypher stent sales and caused irreparable harm to Cordis,’’ J&J said in the lawsuit.

Boston Scientific said it will vigorously defend itself.

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