W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. never let up in trying to overturn a patent infringement judgment worth nearly $2 billion to competing vascular graft maker C.R. Bard Inc. But despite multiple appeals by Gore, including en banc petitions and two attempts to bring the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, Bard’s lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, led by John O’Quinn and Steven Cherny, can finally claim a final victory.
The Kirkland team’s efforts culminated on Monday, when the Supreme Court declined to take up Gore’s latest petition for certiorari. The high court’s decision caps a decades-long dispute over the ownership of an artificial blood vessel that helped to transform vascular surgery.
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