OPINION AND ORDER
RAKOFF, District Judge.
As every sometime athlete is acutely aware, tears to the menisci — the gristle-like structures that act as shock absorbers to the knees — are painfully common. Until relatively recently, the form of suture commonly used in repairing such tears was a large surgical staple. In 1989, however, plaintiff Saul N. Schreiber, M.D., patented a smaller, less cumbersome alternative known as the Bionx Meniscus...
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