Boston Scientific Corporation v. BioCardia, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, Case No. 19-cv-05645-VC et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 117, 119, 121
BIOCARDIA, INC.,
Defendant.
Case No. 20-cv-02829-VC
BIOCARDIA, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
NVISION MEDICAL CORPORATION, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 76, 79 Defendants.
BIOCARDIA LIFESCIENCES, INC., Case No. 20-cv-04667-VC
Plaintiff,
v.
SURBHI SARNA, et al., ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO
DISMISS
Defendants.
In April 2019, BioCardia sent a demand letter to Boston Scientific Corporation and Surbhi Sarna regarding an intellectual property dispute. BioCardia was under the impression that Boston Scientific had acquired certain patents when it purchased a company called nVision, which Sarna founded. BioCardia’s allegations, in a nutshell, were: (i) when Sarna previously worked for BioCardia, she was privy to certain trade secrets; (ii) during and after her time with the company, she secretly obtained patents for inventions using those trade secrets; (iii) she later founded nVision to develop those inventions; and (iv) Boston Scientific was now liable to