San Diego, CA. February 28, 2013 Ivera Medical Corporation, headquartered in San Diego, CA, filed suit today against Excelsior Medical Corporation of Neptune, NJ, for patent infringement by Excelsior’s SwabCap® product.  The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, CA. Ivera manufactures, markets, and sells [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA. (January 23, 2013) Ivera Medical Corporation, a leading medical device innovator, announced that it has been selected by HealthTrust as a provider of disinfecting caps for I.V. needleless connectors. The agreement, effective February 2, 2013, will give HealthTrust member facilities—1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care facilities, as well as 10,600 ambulatory and [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA  January 10, 2013 – On January 9, 2013 the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California denied the motions of Excelsior Medical Corporation, Hospira, and Catheter Connections to stay patent litigations related to intellectual property held by Ivera Medical. Ivera has brought six related patent-infringement-cases asserting three U.S. patents covering [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA. (November 29, 2012) – Ivera Medical, the creator of the Curos® Disinfecting Port Protector, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance to market Curos Tips™. Expanding the Ivera product suite, Curos Tips offer easy and effective disinfection of male luer connectors used in the administration of intravenous (IV) medication therapy for [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA. (November 1, 2012) San Diego Regional Minority Supplier Development Council has renewed the certification that Ivera Medical Corporation has met the stringent requirements for a minority-owned business, as defined by the National Minority Supplier Development Council certification guidelines. Bob Rogers, Ivera Medical CEO said, “Our MBE certification is important. It helps Ivera [...]

SAN DIEGO – June 27, 2012 – Excelsior Medical Corporation has agreed to distribute a statement correcting false claims it made to the market in September of 2011, false statements that prompted Ivera Medical Corporation to file suit against Excelsior for false advertising and unfair competition. Ivera manufactures, markets, and sells the Curos® Port Protector, [...]

New Patent for Curos Disinfecting Port Protectors to be issued June 26, 2012 by USPTO San Diego, California, June 12, 2012 Ivera Medical Corporation announced today that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) will issue a new continuation patent for its innovative Curos® disinfecting port protector technology on June 26, 2012.  U.S. Patent [...]

San Diego, CA. June 7, 2012 Ivera Medical Corporation, a company that manufactures, markets, and sells the Curos® Disinfecting Port Protector, a device that disinfects and protects the entry port on needleless valves used with intravenous lines, categorically denies all claims made by Catheter Connections in their recent legal filings against Ivera. Each Catheter Connections [...]

April 24, 2012 Ivera Medical Corporation announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has reaffirmed the validity of two patents belonging to Ivera. These patents cover key aspects of products used to disinfect intravenous access ports. Excelsior Medical had requested a reexamination of the two patents by the USPTO, arguing that [...]

San Diego, CA. April 18, 2012 Ivera Medical Corporation, headquartered in San Diego, CA, filed suit against Salt Lake City, Utah-based Catheter Connections, Inc.,  for patent infringement arising under the patent laws of the United States of America, 35 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the [...]