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FDA Taking Steps to Prevent Future Medical Device Shortages - Knobbe Medical The medical device industry experienced significant supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such disruptions caused shortages of PPE, ventilators, diagnostic testing, and other medical devices. As Janet Woodcock, M.D., the Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, acknowledges in her Jul...

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Is your funded medical device startup actually a "large entity" according to the USPTO? - Knobbe Medical Even small startups can be "large entities" to the USPTO for the purposes of fees. It's important to know when such situation might apply.

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Philips Acquires BioTelemetry for $2.8B - Knobbe Medical Royal Philips NV acquired BioTelemetry, Inc. for $2.8 billion US dollars. Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, BioTelemetry provides cardiac diagnostics and monitoring tools that, according to the press release, are expected to add to Philips’ line of hospital-based patient monitoring solutions...

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Boston Scientific Exercises Option to Acquire Transcatheter Annuloplasty Ring Developer Millipede Inc. - Knobbe Medical Global medical device company Boston Scientific has announced on December 27, 2018, that it exercised its option to acquire remaining shares of privately-held medical device company Millipede, Inc. upon its recent successful completion of a first-in-human clinical study. Boston Scientific previously...

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Abbott Obtains FDA Approval for HeartMate 3 Device - Knobbe Medical Abbott announced on October 19, 2018 that its HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a destination therapy for people living with advanced heart failure. Physicians now can offer the HeartMate 3 system to patients not eligib...