( June 24, 2026, 12:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for panel rehearing or en banc rehearing from DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. and related DePuy entities, leaving in place a split panel’s January opinion that reversed a Pennsylvania federal judge’s decision to exclude expert witnesses in a dispute brought by a physician who claimed that the DePuy entities induced surgeons to infringe certain claims of his patents....