Boston Scientific countersued claiming that Cordis' Cypher, BX Velocity and Genesis stents infringed on one of its patents. Two juries found that both companies were guilty of patent infringement ...

Then, in February, Cordis announced it was laying off the bulk of its US coronary stent sales force. "In hindsight, looking back, you have to wonder if today's announcement wasn't planned ...

For Cordis/J&J, access to Guidant's sales team is only one perk of the deal: from the beginning, the Cypher stent has weathered criticism that it is difficult to deliver, a problem that could ...

Two are on the market — Boston Scientific Corp.'s Taxus stent, and Cypher, made by Cordis Corp., a Johnson & Johnson company. "Both devices have made remarkable progress" in treating heart ...

The company's Cordis unit will stop selling the drug-coated stents -- tiny mesh tubes that prop open heart arteries -- by year's end. It will continue to sell its far less lucrative bare metal stents.

Johnson & Johnson's Cordis unit is eagerly pointing to study data it says demonstartes that its older Cypher stent is as safe and effective as the Xience V made by Abbott. The Cypher stent has ...

The main franchise of Cordis is drug-coated stents, a market that has shrunk dramatically in the past year because of conflicting data about the device's safety. Cordis is developing a new ...

A federal jury concluded Friday that Johnson & Johnson and its stent-making Cordis subsidiary should pay a New Jersey radiologist $482 million for infringing his patent for tiny artery-opening ...

A federal jury concluded Friday that Johnson & Johnson JNJ and its stent-making Cordis subsidiary should pay a New Jersey radiologist $482 million for infringing his patent for tiny artery-opening ...

Cordis, a unit of Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) is seeking an expanded indication for its SMART self-expanding stent, and the device performed well in patients with ...

Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis launched the first on-air volley in the drug-eluting stent wars with a 60-second spot that broke during the Thanksgiving Cowboys-Jets game. The spot, bearing the tagline ...

Implanting a Cordis Corp. stent in Herbert Entenberg’s body might have saved his life, but it also made his life a living hell, says a Boynton Beach retiree who has filed a lawsuit against the ...