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The medical device industry is currently undergoing monumental change—from supply chain challenges to disruptive technologies and economic fluctuations. To pave the way for a more accessible and innovative health care landscape—including advances in wearables, implants, diagnostics, mobility, drug delivery—the evolving and expansive medical device industry faces wide-ranging legal needs. Clients in this sector can tap the remarkable depth and breadth of our sector-focused and skilled attorneys in the U.S. and abroad. Our Health Care & Life Sciences Industry Group engages clients at all points in the product development life cycle to provide sound advice and practical solutions regardless of the client’s size or the complexity of their need. We help clients navigate today’s complex regulatory landscape, defend products and reputations in the face of high-profile product liability and mass tort claims, protect innovative intellectual property (IP), and leverage cross-border experience to advise on commercial transactions.
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Our Patent Litigation Practice is one of the country’s most active and highly regarded. Our seasoned patent litigators bring extensive courtroom experience to every matter we handle. According to Lex Machina, we are among the top three national patent defense firms in the country for number of appearances and cases filed, and we also were the top national defense firm for number of patent trials in the last five years (2018–2022).
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Winston’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice is one of the most active and highly regarded in the United States per Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation US, and Best Law Firms®, among other ranking organizations. Our team features some of the country’s best IP lawyers, attorneys with the technical abilities to litigate and try highly complex IP disputes, and technical lawyers who provide critical advisory services.
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Client Alert
|June 5, 2023
|4 Min Read
U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Subjective Knowledge Requirement for False Claims Act Violations
On June 1, 2023, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled that whether an entity “knowingly” submitted a false claim to the government in violation of the Civil False Claims Act (FCA) depends on whether the defendant subjectively knew, or believed, its statements or representations to the government in connection with the claims for payment were truthful or accurate—not on what an objectively reasonable person may have known or believed.
News
|January 12, 2012
|2 Min Read
Winston Wins Federal Circuit Appeal in Streck Inc. v. Research & Diagnostic Systems Inc.
On October 20, 2011 Winston & Strawn won a Federal Circuit appeal in Streck Inc. v. Research & Diagnostic Systems Inc. In 2006, Streck sued R&D in the Nebraska district court for infringement of several of its patents covering integrated hematology controls. R&D’s main defense to infringement was that its own employee had invented an integrated hematology control before Streck. In early 2007, the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences declared an interference proceeding between these Streck patents and an R&D patent application to resolve this same issue of priority of invention, and the two cases proceeded in parallel for several years. In October 2009, a Nebraska jury found that Streck was first to invent the integrated hematology control, however, several days after the jury verdict, the USPTO Board awarded priority of invention to R&D.
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Since opening in 2011, Winston & Strawn’s Houston office has grown to nearly 60 lawyers and is home to many long-standing leaders of the Houston legal and business communities. Our Houston office hosts a comprehensive transactional team specializing in private equity, capital markets, and public companies, as well as extensive commercial litigation and intellectual property practices—with nearly all Houston IP attorneys possessing technical degrees. We are also home to a leading energy and infrastructure group that focuses on oil and gas projects and infrastructure litigation, and an international arbitration practice. Our robust offerings demonstrate our commitment to the continued growth of the city’s global, economic, and cultural footprint.