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A U.S. district court in Delaware issued rulings on three pending summary judgment motions in Glaukos’ lawsuit against Transcend Medical concerning Transcend’s CyPass micro-stent.According to a press release from Glaukos, the court ruled that the CyPass does not infringe on the Glaukos patents named in the lawsuit. The court also partly granted Transcend’s summary judgment motion of invalidity, which affects a small subset of claims in each of the Glaukos patents but not the primary claims of the patents.

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NICE — At the Euretina meeting, Ingrid Kreissig, MD, talks about her course on “Minimal Surgery” for retinal detachment. Her personal extraocular technique with an elastic sponge segmental buckle aims at causing minimal trauma to the eye to have fewer complications and better long-term function.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clearside Biomedical, which develops drug therapies to treat diseases of the eye, to present at the International Ocular Inflammation Society meeting Sept. 25-27, 2015, in San Francisco.

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A 72-year-old Armenian woman was referred to the oculoplastics clinic at the New England Eye Center for evaluation of bilateral ptosis. She noticed gradual onset of drooping eyelids over the course of many years.The patient’s medical history was significant only for medically well controlled hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. She was pseudophakic and had lattice corneal dystrophy. Of note, two of her children had lattice corneal dystrophy. Her brother and two children also had similar ptosis. She denied trauma, eye rubbing or chronic contact lens wear. She had no other infectious, neoplastic (Read more...)