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30 June 2020PatentsRory O'Neill

Philip Morris escalates patent dispute with BAT

Philip Morris yesterday, June 29 faced down a patent infringement suit filed by a subsidiary of rival  British American Tobacco (BAT) with counterclaims of its own.

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