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.

NuVasive had to raise its litigation royalty expense estimate for the year after a U.S. District Court set royalty rates for the company's CoRoent XL implants at 13.75 percent and MaXcess retractors at 8.25 percent.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based MAKO Surgical received a permanent injunction against Blue Belt Technologies following a lawsuit sparked by Blue Belt hiring a former MAKO sales manager as its vice president of sales.

A new report from the Office of the Inspector General shows that physicians fighting coverage denials have a good chance of succeeding, according to an American Medical News report.

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.

Anthony Galea, MD, a Canadian sports medicine physician who was accused of smuggling unapproved human growth hormones into the United States to treat professional athletes, is scheduled to appear before a U.S. District Court in New York, according to a USA Today report.

The Supreme Court struck down a Vermont law that prohibited drug manufacturers and data mining companies from selling and using physicians' prescription information.