International Medical Devices, Inc. v. Cornell (Fed. Cir., April 17, 2026) 2025-1580, 2025-1605

Condensed IP · Apr 28, 2026 · 19m

This episode concerns an opinion from the Federal Circuit detailing a dispute between the creators of the Penuma® penile implant and a group of defendants accused of trade-secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and patent infringement. While a jury initially favored the plaintiffs, the appellate court reversed the majority of that verdict, ruling that the alleged trade secrets were already publicly known through prior patents or lacked necessary secrecy. Consequently, the court overturned the findings of contract breach and patent invalidity because the disputed ideas were not legally…