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J&J ordered to pay Boston Scientific $40m over stents

By Bloomberg News

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  April 16, 2012

A Johnson & Johnson unit owes Boston Scientific Corp. more than $40 million in damages for intentionally infringing a patent for coronary stents, a federal judge said in a post-trial ruling. Boston Scientific, a Natick-based medical device company, won about $20 million from Cordis Corp. in a May 2011 jury trial in Wilmington, Del. US District Judge Sue Robinson said in an opinion April 13 that Boston Scientific deserved twice that much.

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