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$10 Mil Fine for Medtronic Lawyers

Filed February 28th, 2008 joshua

Lawyers for medical device maker Medtronic Inc. have been fined $10 million for their conduct in a patent infringement case, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reports.

A U.S. District Court Judge says lawyers for Medtronic – from the New York firm Dewey & LeBouef – “elected to proceed with a defense that threatened to mislead and confuse the jury” and tried to take advantage of the case’s complex nature.

Medtronic lost this case and was ordered to pay a $226.3 million judgment to Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy division last year. Medtronic must also pay a portion of plaintiff’s attorney fees for their deceptive tactics that unnecessarily prolonged court proceedings.

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