Globus Wins $9.5 Million From Life Spine at Patent Jury Trial

Life Spine Inc. owes Globus Medical Inc. $9.5 million after a federal jury in Delaware found four models in its ProLift line of spinal implants infringe a Globus patent.

Jurors awarded Globus $6 million in lost profits and a $3.5 million royalty for infringement of US Patent No. 8,845,731, according to a verdict in the trial’s damages phase issued Friday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.

In the liability phase of the trial, jurors on Aug. 13 found the 2019 ProLift Lateral, ProLift Lateral, ProLift Lateral Fixated, and ProLift Micro infringe the ’731 patent but ...