US court awards $57 mn to Medtronic in patent dispute with AGA Medical

Medtronic, Inc. announced that a federal US district court jury in San Francisco awarded it $57 million in past damages, finding that AGA Medical Corp.'s manufacture, sale and use of its Amplatzer Occluder and vascular plug product lines infringed claims of two US patents owned by Medtronic. The jury also ordered that AGA pay Medtronic a royalty of 11 per cent on future US sales of the infringing products through 2018. 

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