Boston Scientific
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- Pete M. Nicholas ( Chairman of the Board)
- Hank Kucheman (Chief Executive Officer )
The Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC ) is a global manufacturer, developer and distributor of medical products in the United States. The company is listed on the S & P 500. The company's headquarters is located in Natick, Massachusetts and has two regional offices in Paris and Singapore.
History
BSC was founded on June 29, 1979 by John Abele and Peter Nicholas. Abele has previously been involved in, which was founded by Itzhak Bentov 1969 medical technology company Medi-Tech and needed for the further development of an investor. Medi-Tech had already done in the field of interventional medicine significant pioneering work and in 1978 presented a peripheral angioplasty balloon with polyethylene. Medi-Tech in 1979, a subsidiary of the holding company Boston Scientific.
The company acquired in 2006 the long -time competitor Guidant for approximately 28 billion U.S. dollars. The former company Guidant was split between Boston Scientific and Abbott Laboratories.
In spring 2013, there was virtually worldwide on the enforcement of judgments against Boston Scientific basis of patent infringement. The plaintiff has the American medical device manufacturers Orbus Neich Medical Incorporation. In Germany, more than 190 stent systems were seized in the camps of the Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH in Ratingen from 15 May 2013. End of February 2013 had filed an injunction to stop marketing and confiscating the Landgericht Dusseldorf OrbusNeich. The courts in contrast, upheld the decision of the European Patent Office (EPO ) in favor of OrbusNeich from February 11, 2013 that two patents (EP 1341482 and EP 2311412 ) relate to the design of the stent systems were injured. The affected products include the stent Promus element systems, Promus Elemenmt Plus, Omega, Taxus Element, Synergy and Promus Premier. The global distribution of these products also by judgments in the United States and Great Britain were set up in June 2013.
Products
The company is active in the medical fields of neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology.
Boston Scientific is known for the development of drug- eluting stent Taxus, a product for the treatment of vascular stenosis.
The main competitors are the company B. Braun Melsungen, Biotronik, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and St. Jew Medical world.