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27 January 2021Patents

USITC attorney backs BAT in Philip Morris patent dispute

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.

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