St. Jude Medical, Inc. v. Access Closure, Inc., No. 12-1452 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 11, 2013)

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This is a patent case. Access Closure, Inc. (ACI), the defendant at trial, appeals from several rulings made by the United States District Co urt for the Western District of Arkansas in favor of St. Jude Medical, Inc. and St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico, LLC (collectively “St. Jude”), plain- tiffs patentees. The rulings relate to three patents that St. Jude asserted against ACI: U.S. Patent No. 7,008,439 to Janzen et al. (the Janzen patent or ’439 patent); and U.S. Patent No. 5,275,616 to Fo wler (the ’616 patent) and U.S. Patent No.