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Edwards wins UPC fight with Meril, judges endorse ‘holistic’ inventive step test

By Inbar Preiss ( October 22, 2025, 11:13 GMT | Insight) -- A disputed Edwards Lifesciences heart valve patent remains valid, the Unified Patent Court has ruled, dismissing a revocation action brought by Indian medical device maker Meril Life Sciences and granting an injunction after finding that Meril’s heart valves products were infringing. Judges said that the invention should be assessed as a whole rather than by isolating individual technical differences.Edwards Lifesciences has succeeded in persuading the EU's Unified Patent Court to dismiss a revocation action brought by Indian medical device maker Meril Life Sciences and grant an injunction after finding that Meril’s heart valves products infringed an Edwards patent....

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