Becton, Bayer, OpenMind, Invenergy: Intellectual Property

Becton, Dickinson & Co. won a partial appeal of a $5 million patent-infringement verdict that favored Retractable Technologies Inc. on technology used to protect health-care workers from accidental needle sticks.

Becton’s 3-milliliter Integra syringe doesn’t infringe Retractable’s patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said in a decision July 8 that reverses part of a 2009 jury verdict. The court upheld the remaining portion of the jury’s finding, that Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based Becton’s 1-milliliter Integra product does infringe.