March 9, 2015 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced the settlement of the breach of merger agreement lawsuit brought by Johnson & Johnson against Guidant Corporation, stemming from Boston Scientific's acquisition of Guidant. In the lawsuit filed in 2006, Johnson & Johnson alleged that Guidant breached the merger agreement it had with Johnson & Johnson, and sought more than $7 billion in damages. Guidant disputed the allegations.

Biotronik announced the presentation of data from the iliac arm of the BIOFLEX-I clinical trial at the Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) conference in Washington, D.C. The BIOFLEX-I trial is designed to support U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Astron self-expanding nitinol stent to treat patients suffering from common iliac or external iliac artery disease.

Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced it has initiated a clinical trial of its CorPath System in peripheral vascular interventions. The study is currently enrolling patients at the Medical University of Graz in Graz, Austria, and is led by Prof. Marianne Brodmann, M.D., a leading researcher with the university’s Division of Angiology, in combination with Prof. Hannes Deutschmann, M.D., of the Medical University of Graz Department of Radiology, and study chairman, Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., director, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center-Medicine, UC San Diego.