A Delaware jury handed down a $16 million favorable judgment to Johnson & Johnson's DePuy-Synthes in its patent infringement suit against Globus Medical, according to a Mass Device report.

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, May 23, 2013.

MAKO Surgical has agreed to settle its patent infringement lawsuit against Stanmore Implants Worldwide and will acquire some of Stanmore's assets.

Zimmer Holdings was told to pay $70 million to Stryker for patent infringements, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

A German District Court in Mannheim has dismissed Synthes' patent infringement claims against Spinal Kinetics, and the court ordered Synthes to pay certain litigation costs.

A jury in the United States District Court ruled that Spinal Kinetics did not infringe on Synthes patents with the M6 Artificial Disc, according to a Spinal Kinetics news release.

The United States District Court of the Southern District of California in San Diego has awarded Medtronic $101.2 million in damages as a result of the patent dispute between Medtronic and NuVasive, according to a Medtronic news release.

The San Diego trial recently began for NuVasive and Medtronic, which each have each alleged patent infringement lawsuits against the other, according to a Bloomberg report.

Orthopedic device maker Synthes has sued spine device company Globus Medical, alleging three patent infringements, according to a Bloomberg report.

The federal court in New Jersey has upheld Wright Medical Technology's patent on its Advance knee implants in a patent infringement case brought by Stryker's Howmedica Osteonics subsidiary, according to an 8-K filing by Wright Medical.