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September 27, 2005

Jason Returns
Just like Jason, the returning villain of the "Friday the 13th" movies, Medinol, the bête noire for Boston Scientific, has risen from the grave to haunt them only days after settling their long-standing dispute about the Express and Nir stents for $750 million, now with a demand to share in the royalties of the Liberté stent, which they say infringes on their design, and which was not included in the recent close-to-a-billion-dollar settlement.

Not included in the settlement? How could such a long-standing dispute be considered "settled" without including a hands off the Liberté clause -- the next big thing for Boston Scientific?

Stay tuned....

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September 15, 2005

I Say Tomato...
Just a small little nit-pick here (is there such a thing as a large nit-pick?) but just how does one pronounce the name of the new Boston Scientific drug-eluting stent: the Liberté. I have heard Paul LaViolette (COO of the company) use the native French, "Li-ber-tay", during several conference calls (as one would expect, given that the last "e" carries an accent aigu) but in a multimedia animated clip on the official Boston Scientific website, the professional (paid!) narrator uses the good ol' American "Li-ber-tee", as in "Liberty Bell" or "Sweet Liberty" (a movie in which I was an extra). Could the clip have been produced during the period when french fries became known as "freedom fries".

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