Baxter’s Infringement Claims Survive Against BD, CareFusion

Baxter International, Inc. May 13 successfully fended off a move by Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD) and its CareFusion Corp. subsidiary to have a court dismiss infringement claims related to Baxter’s medical infusion pumps patents (Baxter Int’l, Inc. v. CareFusion Corp., 2016 BL 153611, N.D. Ill., 1:15-cv-09986, 5/13/16).

The BD defendants asked the court to dismiss Baxter’s infringement claims for two out of the three patents at issue in the case because those patents claimed unpatentable abstract ideas.

Judge Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois disagreed, and refused to ...