03.04.07
Fonar v. General Electric
This podcast will be the first of a number of podcasts dealing with patents on medical devices. In the mid 90’s, Fonar sued General Electric for infringement of its patent on the acquisition of multiple MRI images, at different angles, during a single scanning session. These exhibits were stored on a (now old fashioned) analog video laser disc. A laptop computer was used to select the individual videos for display to the jury.
As is our usual practice in this podcast series, the video we’ve built for you consists of excerpts from the original animations, with our own new explanatory voiceover. We do this because the animations used in trial are often quite long — sometimes hours — and usually have no audio track to tell you what’s going on. When they’re presented in court, of course, these animations are accompanied by the live testimony of an expert witness. We also think that you might find some explanation useful in understanding the animations and their significance both to the trial and to the history of animation in court.
