The U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit on Monday overturned a previous ruling in favor of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co Inc. in a patent lawsuit.
Virginia-based Star Scientific Inc. filed suit in 2001, alleging that RJR, subsidiary of Winston-Salem-based Reynolds American Inc., had infringed upon patents relating to a process to cure tobacco that reduces carcinogens in cigarettes. But a lower court ruled in 2007 that the Star Scientific patents were unenforceable, as RJR had argued. More...
Virginia-based Star Scientific Inc. filed suit in 2001, alleging that RJR, subsidiary of Winston-Salem-based Reynolds American Inc., had infringed upon patents relating to a process to cure tobacco that reduces carcinogens in cigarettes. But a lower court ruled in 2007 that the Star Scientific patents were unenforceable, as RJR had argued. More...
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