{"id":267862,"date":"2026-06-08T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/fifth-circuit-hears-allegations-of-piracy-in-medical-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:55:09","slug":"fifth-circuit-hears-allegations-of-piracy-in-medical-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/fifth-circuit-hears-allegations-of-piracy-in-medical-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit Hears Allegations of Piracy in Medical Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifth Circuit Hears Allegations of Piracy in Medical Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/natlawreview.com\/article\/patent-infringement-lawsuit-alleges-piracy-ai-driven-medical-technology<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-08 19:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: natlawreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In April 2026, a\u00a0complaint\u00a0alleging \u201cone of the most egregious examples of piracy in the medical technology industry\u201d landed on the docket of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.<\/p>\n

The 180-page patent infringement lawsuit by Heartflow, Inc.\u2014a California-based medical company that advances coronary care through artificial intelligence (AI)-powered three-dimensional models of a patient\u2019s heart\u2014alleges that a former Heartflow consultant founded a rival company, Cleerly, Inc., using Heartflow\u2019s \u201crevolutionary cardiovascular diagnostic technology, trade secrets, and confidential business information\u201d while still bound by contractual obligations.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy this action, Heartflow seeks to protect the extraordinary investment\u2014measured in hundreds of millions of dollars, decades of research protected by hundreds of patents, and the contributions of countless scientists, engineers, and physicians\u2014that created the world\u2019s first AI-powered, non-invasive cardiac diagnostic platform, as recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),\u201d the Heartflow complaint states.<\/p>\n

Cleerly issued a\u00a0statement\u00a0on April 17, calling the filing a \u201clawsuit to limit competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe strongly disagree with the allegations and will vigorously defend against these baseless claims,\u201d Cleerly wrote. The company\u2019s answer is due July 8, 2026.<\/p>\n

We discuss this patent infringement case in further detail below.<\/p>\n

Background<\/h3>\n

According to the complaint, Heartflow\u2019s history reaches back to 1978, when a future co-founder of the company, then a teenager, suffered a ruptured appendix and resolved to become a doctor. By the 1990s, Dr. Charles Taylor\u2019s research interests expanded to include using computers to simulate blood flow in arteries and medical image analysis.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Heartflow\u2019s leaders hired Dr. James K. Min, who signed a nondisclosure agreement and who agreed to assign to Heartflow…<\/p>\n

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