MiMedx Patent Infringement Lawsuits Gets Favorable Rulings From PTAB

(RTTNews) - MiMedx Group, Inc. (MDXG) said Friday that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled in favor of the company's primary EpiFix and AmnioFix patents.

In April 2014, MiMedx filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Liventa Bioscience, Inc., Medline Industries, Inc. and Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Inc. for permanent injunctive relief and unspecified damages.

In May 2014, the company also filed a separate action against Transplant Technology, Inc. d/b/a Bone Bank Allograft and Texas Human Biologics Ltd. for patent infringement.

In both suits, MiMedx asserted that those organizations infringed and continue to infringe at least six MiMedx patents. As part of their defense strategy, two of the four defendants submitted certain of the MiMedx patents to the inter partes review process, which means they are asking the PTAB to review the subject matter covered by the MiMedx patents and decide whether it was proper for the patents to have been granted in the first place.

MiMedx received two recent rulings from the PTAB. One PTAB ruling was made in regard the inter partes review request related to the MiMedx primary EpiFix patent and the other recent PTAB decision was for the inter partes review request related to the MiMedx AmnioFix patent. In both rulings, the PTAB found no basis to challenge those patents and fully rejected the request for review on those patents.