(Reuters) - Star filed a lawsuit in 2001 against Reynolds American's R.J. Reynolds Tobacco unit, saying Reynolds had infringed on patents related to a curing process that reduces the level of cancer-causing toxins in tobacco.
Garbis has previously ruled that key patent claims at issue in the lawsuit were invalid. He has agreed with Reynolds that the term "anaerobic condition," used in Star Scientific's patents on a curing process that reduces the level of cancer-causing toxins in tobacco, was "fatally indefinite" and therefore invalid.
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Garbis has previously ruled that key patent claims at issue in the lawsuit were invalid. He has agreed with Reynolds that the term "anaerobic condition," used in Star Scientific's patents on a curing process that reduces the level of cancer-causing toxins in tobacco, was "fatally indefinite" and therefore invalid.
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