USITC attorney backs BAT in Philip Morris patent dispute
USITC attorney backs BAT in Philip Morris patent dispute 27-01-2021 01-02-2012 An attorney for the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has recommended that the Commission find Philip Morris International (PMI) to have infringed British American Tobacco’s (BAT) patents, which would likely lead to PMI’s IQOS products being excluded from the US market as early as November 2021. Administrative Law Judge Clark Cheney is hearing the dispute at the ITC, which began on Monday, January 25. The trial, which is the latest development in the ongoing IP spat between US multinational tobacco compan...
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