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Article: Oeneo Successfully Defends Super-Critical Challenge.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 6, 2009
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Oeneo, manufacturer of technical closure DIAM, has today (22nd April)
successfully defended a challenge to its patented super-critical technology in the European Office of the Patent in Munchen (see also Oeneo).
The challenge was filed by cork producers against Oeneo and the government owned French Atomic Agency CEA, which jointly own the exclusive rights to the patented DIAM super-critical CO2 process. Objectors had challenged DIAM's rights to the super-critical technology.
Commenting on the development, DIAM commercial director Dean Banister
said: "This recent challenge is yet another positive validation of the Diamant process, and ...