It was probably inevitable. It’s definitely a first. Ireland’s 14-day quarantine rule for travellers has been used to try and curb part of an international legal battle between two of the world’s biggest medical device companies. As first reported by Sean Keyes in The Currency last February an intellectual property fight between Abbott Laboratories and Edwards Lifesciences landed in Dublin earlier this year. The US Medtech giants have been fighting over a new type of medical device: a tiny clamp used to treat mitral valve regurgitation -a condition where blood flows the wrong way in the heart which in serious…

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