Jump to full article: AFX News, 2007-09-11
Intro: Smokeless tobacco developer Star Scientific Inc said it has filed the opening brief in its appeal of its patent infringement lawsuit against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Inc, part of Reynolds American Inc.
Star said the papers were filed with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday.
The company alleges in the six-year dispute Reynolds infringed its patent for a process that reduces certain cancer-causing toxins in tobacco.
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