SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (NYSE: KCI) announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the validity of the two Wake Forest patents involved in the litigation against BlueSky Medical Group, Inc., Medela AG, and Medela, Inc. The Court also upheld the jury finding that the patent claims involved in the case are not infringed by the gauze-based Versatile 1 system marketed by BlueSky, which was acquired by Smith & Nephew in May 2007. The Wake Forest patents encompass numerous and varied claims related to KCI’s V.A.C.® technology used for the treatment of patients with serious, complex wounds.
