An inch-long screw can cause a lot of damage. In September a federal jury found that medical device maker Medtronic, Inc., had infringed a patent on a spinal surgery screw marketed by DePuy, a unit of Johnson & Johnson. Medtronic was ordered to pay J&J $226.3 million.
J&J had licensed the screw technology from German medical device maker Biedermann Motech GmbH and marketed the product under the name Vertex. In 2001 DePuy sued Medtronic in federal district court in Boston for patent infringement.
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