J&J’s DePuy Gets Bone-Medicine Patents Invalidated, Nixing Trial

A federal judge canceled an upcoming jury trial after voiding two patents covering ways to deliver medicine to bones that Spinal Generations LLC alleged Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes Inc. unit infringed.

Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly granted DePuy’s request for summary judgment that US Patent Nos. 8,808,337 and 7,575,572 are invalid, according to an opinion issued April 11 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. He nixed the trial that had been set to begin April 28.

• Spinal broadened the patents’ scope by including the phrase “at least one end,” which expanded the claims to cover ...