Med Tech Groups’ Device Exemption Challenge Meets Wary Court (1)

A skeptical DC Circuit grilled medical technology trade groups Friday over their bid to revive a challenge to the Library of Congress exempting medical device repair from an anti-hacking copyright statute.

Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance and the Advanced Medical Technology Association argued the Library essentially exempted blatant infringement during a nearly two-hour oral argument at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The panel expressed doubts about the group’s stance on copyright’s reach in blocking repair activity, and suggested it was too late to confine their challenge to the exemption of merely accessing diagnostics and repair tools ...