Court Rules On Contempt Motion in Diomed Patent Litigation

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diomed Holdings, Inc. (AMEX: DIO - News), a leading developer and marketer of minimally invasive medical technologies, including its patented EndoVenous Laser Treatment (EVLT®) for varicose veins, today announced U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton’s ruling on Diomed’s motion for contempt against AngioDynamics and Vascular Solutions based on the continuing sales of certain laser consoles for the endovenous treatment of varicose veins.
Judge Gorton confirmed the permanent injunction that he originally entered in July 2007 against AngioDynamics and Vascular Solutions covering the sale of both those lasers that were the subject of the infringement proceeding and those that are no more than “colorable variations” of those laser consoles. Judge Gorton did not extend the injunction to those lasers that are being sold with modified versions of the competitors’ disposable procedure kits. Diomed did not request that the court rule on whether the modified kits themselves infringed Diomed’s patent.
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