PHILADELPHIA – A New Kinsington corporation and two others allege that a Michigan corporation sells a "knockoff" patient positioning system.
Xodus Medical Inc., Alessio Pigazzi and Glenn Keilar filed a complaint on Nov. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against G & T Industries Inc. alleging patent infringement.
According to the complaint, Pigazzi and Keilar are the owners and Xodus is the exclusive licensee of the '876 patent, which involves a medical device used to position patients during surgery. The plaintiffs holds G & T Industries Inc. responsible because the defendant allegedly sells the STP200/23S and induce others to use it despite knowing that it infringes at least one claim of plaintiffs' patent.
The plaintiffs request a trial by jury and seek enjoin the defendant from further infringing plaintiff's patent, damages, treble damages, court costs and any further relief the court grants. They are represented by Mary Ellen Conroy of Cipriani & Werner in Blue Bell.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania case number 2:17-cv-01123-AJS