06/05/2026
LIFE SPINE ANNOUNCES "TOTAL VICTORY" IN PATENT BATTLE WITH GLOBUS
Huntley, IL, June 4th, 2026 –
Today the United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, issued an opinion rejecting Globus’s last-remaining patent claim against Life Spine.
In 2021, Globus sued Life Spine alleging that Life Spine’s ProLift® line of products infringed Globus patents. Life Spine challenged the patentability of several of the patents and, in 2024, the United States Patent Trial & Appeal Board cancelled all of the claims from four patents that Globus had asserted against Life Spine.
In August 2025, a jury trial was held on Globus’s remaining patent claims in the United States District Court, District of Delaware. The jury rejected Globus’ infringement claims on one of the two remaining patents. Today, the Federal Circuit held that Globus’s only remaining infringement claims were based on an invalid patent.
As a result, Life Spine has now successfully defeated all of Globus’s infringement claims.
“This is a defining result for Life Spine,” said Rich Mueller, President & Chief Executive Officer of Life Spine. “We have always believed in the strength of our innovation and the ProLift platform. This outcome confirms what we’ve known from the beginning—that these claims lacked merit and that our technology stands on solid ground. More importantly, we remain focused on what matters most: delivering better outcomes for patients and surgeons.”
Brianne Straka, Co-Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Chicago Office, and co-lead trial counsel, said: “It is rare to be able to defeat all patent claims asserted across eight patents. But we did it by strategically leveraging different forums. This is total victory.”
For more Information → https://lifespine.com/project/life-spine-announces-total-victory-in-patent-battle-with-globus/
