Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: CareFusion (CFN), Teleflex Incorporated (TFX), and Quidel (QDEL).

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Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Teleflex Incorporated (TFX), Covidien (COV), and Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO).

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Teleflex wanted KSR to pay royalties for its device, but KSR refused, saying the Teleflex pedal was an obvious invention that didn't warrant a patent.

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Teleflex had a patent for a gas pedal that moves via electronic sensor according to a driver's height, which Ford Motor was using on some of its trucks.

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"A contraindication is a clear, well understood and accepted concept in the medical community that says, 'Do not use this device for this purpose, '" Teleflex wrote in a statement to CNN.

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Teleflex, the company that makes these clips, said surgeons have safely and successfully used them in millions of surgical procedures, and that the company believes the transplant community is "well aware" of the warning not to use them in kidney donors.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Teleflex (nyse: TFX - news - people ) had a patent for a gas pedal that moves via electronic sensor according to a driver's height, which Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) was using on some of its trucks.

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