About

Medtronic is a medical equipment manufacturer and innovation company, and takes a leadership role in what it calls “value based health care” in pursuing active “sharing-of-risk” with hospitals, reimbursement agencies and patients. Medtronic fosters a sustainable medical device innovation ecosystem through research and development in China. The company’s world class legal team is responsible for pursuing a win-win approach to intellectual property, out-licensing, in-licensing and the complete set legal priorities that enable the manufacturing of life-saving implantable medical devices such as pacemakers, stents, and deep brain stimulation products and more. Each of the company’s legal professionals is focused on spending time and attention on defending the intellectual property of Medtronic’s various profit centres and innovators. John Thomas has worked in life sciences, bio-tech, and medical device industries for nearly two decades and leads the excellent team. A nominator has said that Medtronic, ‘is the best client I’ve ever dealt with’. The team has excellent business acumen and a great understanding of the healthcare industry’s operation in the Greater China region. The team provides expert support to the company in legal, compliance and government affairs matters. A nominator added that Thomas shows excellent leadership and has a ‘progression plan in mind for every single team member in his legal department, he identifies everyone’s strength and he trains and lets them grow very well, though he has a very big team of [over] 20 people’.