Align Technology says court grants summary judgement in favor of company

Align Technology announced that on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment in favor of Align Technology, Inc. in two U.S. antitrust class action lawsuits, filed initially in 2020 and 2021, respectively. These lawsuits challenged Align’s decision to end scan acceptance in the U.S. from a third-party scanner that was infringing Align’s intellectual property. “We are pleased that the Court has ruled in favor of Align in these two antitrust class actions,” said Joe Hogan, president and CEO of Align Technology. “Our teams are constantly innovating to create products and services that delight users with the best clear aligner and scanner technology in the world. We invest more than $300 million annually in research and development to deliver world-class products that doctors and their patients trust to create better smiles, and we are proud of our efforts to move an analog industry to a state of the art digital one.”