By inventing the implantable cardioventer defibrillator (ICD), late physician Michel Mirowski saved tens of thousands of lives and earned millions of dollars in patent licensing fees for his family’s company, Mirowski Family Ventures LLC. Now the Mirowski legacy also includes a gargantuan jury award, thanks to a verdict reached Tuesday in a case involving claims against Boston Scientific Corp.
Siding with MFV’s lawyers at Williams & Connolly, a state court jury in Maryland awarded the company $309.3 million after a two-week trial. The jury found that by quietly settling disputes with rival St. Jude Medical Inc. in 2006, Boston Scientific breached a prior agreement to cooperate with Mirowski in all litigation over the ICD patents it was licensing from him.
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