KCI Files New Patent Infringement Claims Against Smith & Nephew

Kinetic Concepts is filing more claims against Smith & Nephew in an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit.

By: Editor

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Kinetic Concepts and Wake Forest University Health Sciences have filed more patent infringement claims against Smith & Nephew in an ongoing patent lawsuit in Federal District Court in San Antonio, TX. 

San Antonio, TX-based KCI filed the new infringement claims against Smith & Nephew for the commercialization of a negative pressure wound therapy foam dressing kit. KCI says the dressing kit infringes on several patents in its portfolio, including three patents licensed to KCI from Wake Forest. 

“Wake Forest and KCI are leading innovators in negative pressure wound therapy, having invested significant time and resources in the development of a wound care therapy that has been used to successfully treat nearly three million patients worldwide,” said Catherine M. Burzik, president and chief executive officer of KCI. 

“Enforcing and protecting our intellectual property rights enables us to continue investing substantial resources in innovation that delivers advanced therapies and products that significantly improve the healing — and the lives — of people around the world.”

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. is a global medical technology company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of innovative, high-technology therapies and products for the wound care, tissue regeneration and therapeutic support system markets.

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