A lawsuit by an Alpharetta-based medical products firm against a physician and inventor has been upended by a federal jury in Atlanta, which rejected the company’s claims and embraced the defendant’s counterclaim, awarding him $8.7 million.
The jury held that James Quinn—a professor of surgery and emergency medicine at Stanford University—had not stolen trade secrets during seven years of consulting with Chemence Medical Products Inc. and that the company’s lawsuit against Quinn had been brought in bad faith. The March 11 jury award reimbursed Quinn for commissions Chemence had failed to pay Quinn, said his lead counsel, M. Mike Egan Jr. of Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney.
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