Chief Judge Robert J. Jonker of the Western District of Michigan, who is overseeing a dispute between the inventors of a patent describing a method for
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March 4, 2021
Chief Judge Robert J. Jonker of the Western District of Michigan, who is overseeing a dispute between the inventors of a patent describing a method for securing a mechanical resuscitator to patients suffering cardiac arrest, has adopted the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Sally J. Berens dismissing one of three plaintiffs for failure to obtain representation by a licensed attorney. The court’s Tuesday decision dismisses the plaintiff NewAir Manufacturing, LLC, the assignee and owner of all rights and interests in the patent-in-suit.
By way of background, the patent’s inventors allege that Physio-Control, Inc., and the companies that bought and sold it over time, infringed upon the plaintiffs’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) patent for nearly two decades after Medtronic misappropriated the trade secrets behind the invention. The plaintiffs’ second amended complaint, filed in July 2019, explains that the patent-in-s