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1995-Today Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISR)
2003 The uncertainty created by the litigation between the companies was a drag on each company's growth. In 2003, Intuitive Surgical and Computer Motion agreed to merge, thus ending the litigation between them.
2003? Shortly before going public, Intuitive Surgical was sued for patent infringement by Computer Motion, its chief rival.
Although the ZEUS system was approved in Europe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not yet approved it for any procedure at the time that the FDA first approved the da Vinci system.
Computer Motion had actually gotten into the robotic surgery field earlier than Intuitive Surgical, with its own system, the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System.
ZEUS robotic surgical system (ZRSS)