Karsten Manufacturing Corp. v. Cleveland Golf Co‪.‬

Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") seeks review of a final decision of the District Court for the District of Minnesota. Medtronic, Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Sys., Inc., No. 97-CV-2459 (JMR/FLN) (D. Minn. Jan. 12, 2000). The district court granted a motion by Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. and Guidant Corp. (collectively, "Defendants") for judgment as a matter of law, filed after trial but before the case reached the jury. The district court held that claims 1-2, 6, 8-9, 11-12, 15, 17, and 19-20 of U.S. Patent No. 5,653,727 ("727 patent") were not infringed by Defendants accused product. Because the district court correctly construed the means-plus-function limitation of "means for connecting adjacent elements together," and because Medtronic conceded non-infringement based on that construction, we affirm.