Organization and Business

3 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2013

Organization and Business

Organization and Business

1. Organization and Business

Kips Bay Medical, Inc. (“we”, “us” or “our”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on May 1, 2007. We are a medical device company focused on manufacturing and commercializing our external saphenous vein support technology, or eSVS Mesh, for use in coronary artery bypass grafting (“CABG”) surgery. Our eSVS Mesh is a nitinol mesh sleve that, when placed over a saphenous vein graft during CABG surgery, is designed to improve the structural characteristics and long-term performance of the saphenous vein graft. In CABG procedures, surgeons harvest blood vessels, including the internal mammary artery from the chest and the saphenous vein from the leg, and attach the harvested vessels to bypass, or provide blood flow around, blocked coronary arteries.