Representatives of Medtronic and Axonics did not respond to requests for comment.
Administrative Patent Judges Eric Jeschke, James Tartal, and Brent Dougal sat on the panel for this decision.
The patents-at-issue are U.S. Patent Nos. 8,738,148 and 8,457,758.
Axonics is represented by Samantha A. Jameson, Matthew D. Powers, William P. Nelson, Azra Hadzimehmedovic, Aaron M. Nathan, and Danielle L. Pfifferling of Tensegrity Law Group LLP.
Medtronic is represented by Naveen Modi, Chetan R. Bansal, Quadeer Ahmed, and Paul Anderson of Paul Hastings LLP.
The cases are Axonics Modulation Technologies Inc. v. Medtronic Inc., case numbers IPR2020-00712 and IPR2020-00680, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
