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LaserSurge Inc. has filed a patent-infringement suit seeking to halt a West Coast firm's sales of a new surgical instrument used in heart operations.
LaserSurge, which does business under the name LSI Solutions, along with Connecticut-based Interventional Therapies LLC, filed the action last week in U.S. District Court in Rochester.
The two firms claim Perclose Inc., a unit of Abbott Laboratories Inc., several months ago began selling a suturing instrument, the Closer, that infringes on U.S. patents obtained by LSI in 1995 and 1996.
Abbott Laboratories is a $13 billion pharmaceutical and medical equipment firm based in Illinois. It acquired Redwood City, Calif.-based Perclose last year in a $644...