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Niazi Licensing Corp. v. St. Jude Medical S.C.,
Inc., No. 2021-1864 (Fed. Cir. (D. Minn.) Apr. 11,
2022). Opinion by Stoll, joined by Taranto and Bryson.
Niazi sued St. Jude for directly and indirectly infringing a
patent directed to a double catheter for use during
resynchronization therapy for treating congestive heart
failure.
During claim construction, the district court determined that
the terms "resilient" and "pliable" in certain
claims rendered those claims invalid as indefinite. The district
court also construed an asserted method claim to require the method
steps to be "performed in the order listed" in the claim.
Based on that construction, the court found no induced infringement
of the method claim because there was no direct infringement and
