Medical technology firm Zmed has filed suit against radiation therapy firm Nomos, charging the company with patent infringement for its recently released ImageSync ultrasound real-time imaging and positioning software. The suit, filed in federal court in Boston, is based on a previous case between the firms in which Cranberry Township, PA-based Nomos claimed that it "does not display 3-D information and does not do 3-D matching (with their BAT System)," according to Marc Buntaine, president of Ashland, MA-based Zmed.
Zmed believes that the ImageSync software infringes on technology in its SonArray system, an ultrasound-guided adaptive positioning system that uses stereotactic optical guidance to align an internal target to isocenter for each fraction. The firm holds a patent on the 3-D to 3-D matching technology in SonArray that ensures the internal target is directly at isocenter per a treatment plan.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersAugust 7, 2003
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