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Board construction of ‘sterilized’ jives with UK safety standard, US court says

By Melissa Ritti ( April 15, 2025, 21:00 GMT | Insight) -- Findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a person of skill in the art would have known that “sterilized” is the equivalent of “sterile,” as that term is used in the UK’s Public Assessment Report for ChloraPrep, and have knowledge of that same prior art, won’t be disturbed. In a precedential decision today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said substantial evidence supports cancellation of two Sage Products sterilized chlorhexidine patents as anticipated.A successful inter partes review by Becton, Dickinson and Co., or BD, of two patents owned by Sage Products which relate to sterilized chlorhexidine will stand, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled today....

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