We just ran across Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. v. Amersham Health, Inc., ___F. Supp.2d ___, 2009 WL 1743699 (D.N.J. June 30, 2009). Yeah, we know, it’s over a month old — ancient by blawg standards. In our defense, all we can say is that it’s a Lanham Act case, and we pay more attention to the products area.

Anyway, the claim there was that the defendant violated the Lanham Act by causing the publication of supposedly untrue articles (more…)

I think we can all somewhat figure this out, but there are cases to where open heart surgery may the answer.  A short while back with my interview with Dr. Muhs, who is  the principal investigator on all of the endovascular trials conducted in the Section of Vascular Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine, I learned quite a bit. 
Each patient is different and thus each treatment plan for surgery is unique.  When devices are implanted (more…)