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Edwards wins UPC appeal, court confirms inventive step test

By Inbar Preiss ( November 27, 2025, 15:12 GMT | Insight) -- Edwards won its UPC appeal as judges upheld its heart-valve patent, confirmed infringement by Meril and confirmed the court's inventive-step test, leaving only a narrow exception for extra-large valve sizes.Edwards Lifesciences has prevailed in its dispute with Indian med-tech manufacturer Meril, after the Unified Patent Court’s top judges upheld the validity of its prosthetic-heart-valve patent and confirmed infringement by Meril’s Myval Octacor device....

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