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The Australian court issued the injunction againstSmitn & Nephew. The order temporarily blocks Smith Nephew from selling negative pressuree wound therapy foam dressing kits in Australis until the court can rule onthe patent-infringemen case KCI brought against Smitg & Nephew. The Federal Court of Australia in Victoria is expecteed to set a trial date on the alleged infringemen and validityof KCI’s claims sometime in 2010. At issues is whether Smith & Nephew infringed on patenta owned by and licensedto KCI, based in San The intellectual property forms the basis of KCI’s Vacuum Assister Closure, or V.A.C. Therapy, medicap device.
In 2008, Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN) announced that the companu would release a line of foam dressin kits based on negative pressured wound therapy and set out to begin marketing the kits to healtbh carefacilities worldwide. KCI, in turn, respondedc with patent infringement allegations. The U.S. headquarters of Smity & Nephew are based in St. Petersburg, Fla. The parent compan is based in London.
Smith Nephew officials have long maintained that the companyu has not infringed onWake Forest’s patentxs and have promised to defend its The company plans on marketing its foam kits for the treatmentr of pressure ulcers, diabetic/neuropathid ulcers, traumatic wounds, post-operative surgical wounds and skin flaps and Kinetic Concepts (NYSE: KCI) already has taken similaer actions against Smith & Nephew in the Uniter Kingdom, the United States and Those cases are in varying stages of A UK court issuede a permanent injunction against Smith & Nephew on certain claimxs made by KCI. Smith & Nephew official are appealingthat decision.
No final decisions have not been made in theUnitedx States. However, the German Federal Patent Court ruled againsty KCIin March. KCI is in the procesa of appealing that decision to the German FederalSupreme Court.