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JURY AWARDS MEDTRONIC $51 MILLION IN PATENT CASE

October 3, 2005

Medtronic recently announced that a jury in the U.S. District Court in Denver awarded $51 million to Medtronic Navigation in a longstanding dispute with BrainLAB AG, a German company, involving four patents related to image-guided surgical techniques and devices. Medtronic Navigation claimed that BrainLAB AG's VectorVision, Kolibri, Exactrac, and BrainSuite infringed claims of four patents held by Medtronic.

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