Laser fight Candela v. Cynosure involves patents, profits, personalities

From: The Boston Globe | Date: November 17, 1993| Author: Ronald Rosenberg, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Horace Furumoto took his lasers and went home.

Forced out of his own company in 1991 by a board of directors that spoke of mismanagement, the founder and former president of Candela Laser Corp. lived up to a yearlong noncompete agreement -- and then started getting even.

He formed Cynosure Inc. in Bedford and last year began shipping medical lasers for the dermatology market at prices significantly below Candela's.

Now, a battle that began with concern about profits and ha...

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