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Integer gets $28M from long-running patent spat

October 27, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Integer Holdings (NYSE:ITGR) said today it has received a payment of approximately $28 million resulting from its July 2020 patent victory against AVX.

An appeals court upheld a $22.2 million jury verdict in July in the long-standing patent spat between Integer, formerly known as Greatbatch, and AVX, now part of Kyocera. Integer said it has applied the $28 million to pay down approximately 4% of its net debt, and that the additional funds were related to interest accrued during the process.

.Integer originally filed a patent infringement complaint in April 2013, alleging that AVX infringed on patents related to the FFTs used in its implantable pacers and cardioverter defibrillators.

Integer was awarded $37.5 million in damages by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in January 2016. In that first trial, the jury upheld the validity of two asserted patents, and two additional patents that AVX had challenged. Three months later, AVX won a bid for reconsideration, which vacated a previous summary judgment in Integer’s favor and paved the way for another trial re-exploring whether AVX intentionally infringed on certain Integer patents with its Ingenio devices.

During the next trial, which took place in 2017, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict as to whether the infringement from AVX’s Ingenio FFT devices was willful, according to court documents. In response to that decision, AVX filed a motion for a new trial to assess damages that took into account the new court verdicts, which were granted in March 2018, according to court documents.

In the retrial, the court awarded Integer approximately $22.2 million in damages, including approximately $10 million in damages for lost profits and sales related to infringement by AVX’s Frontier and Progeny devices, approximately $9.6 million for infringement by AVX’s Ingenio devices and approximately $2.5 million in damages for infringement by AVX’s NG3 devices, according to court documents.

“The successful conclusion of this litigation reinforces Integer’s commitment to protect our intellectual property, supporting our vision to enhance the lives of patients worldwide by being our customers’ partner of choice for innovative medical technologies and services,” the company said in a news release.

This article has been updated with further comment from Integer Holdings.

 

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