Boston Scientific's Lotus TAVR--Courtesy of Boston Scientific
Sapien 3 valve--Courtesy of Edwards Lifesciences
As a leader in the field of medical devices, Boston Scientific and Edwards Lifesciences are peers. The two companies have previously shot in Europe because of the patent for heart valve replacement equipment. Today, the patent battle has even spread to the US market, and Boston Scientific shares its share of the latter's products in the US market.
This time, Boston Scientific filed a lawsuit in Delaware and California, respectively, accusing Edwards of related products infringing its patents. Edwards believes that the accusation of the former is unfounded. Edwards claims that the company has invested more than $1 billion in this area before Boston Scientific entered the field of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). At the same time, company officials also stressed that Boston Scientific currently does not have any FDA-approved transcatheter therapy market in the United States.
Just last November, Boston Scientific sued Edwards in Germany, claiming that the latter's Sapien 3 TAVR product infringed a company's patent called Adaptive Stitching Technology, which has been applied to its Lotus TAVR device.
As a medical device company that entered the TAVR field earlier, Edwards has been eccentric about patent disputes in this field. As early as 2014, the company had already launched a long-awaited patent war around TAVR equipment with its main competitor, Medtronic. In the end, the two sides agreed to reconcile in this area.
Today, the lawsuit with Boston Scientific, in the eyes of Edwards, is more like the challenge of the latecomers.
The author believes that as the representative of the world's top technology, the core competitiveness of the medical device industry is unique technology. Therefore, the patent dispute is also the norm in the industry. This also prompts Chinese medical device companies and regulatory agencies. Only relevant companies attach great importance to technology research and development, and strive to improve core competitiveness, and relevant management agencies attach great importance to the protection of technological achievements, so that the medical device industry can be virtuous. , release the biggest industry dividend.
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