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Article: The Daily Record Business News Briefs: September 4, 2009
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
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- September 4, 2009
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A win for Martek
Martek Biosciences Corp., of Columbia, won an appeals court
ruling that the Nutrinova unit of Switzerland-based Lonza Group AG
infringed two of its patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit in Washington affirmed most of a lower court's
ruling, while also finding Martek could press claims over a third
patent. A lower court in Wilmington, Del., initially found that
patent to be invalid. The lower court prohibited Lonza, the world's
largest maker of drug ingredients, from marketing DHA
docosahexaenoic acid products that infringe two Martek patents.
Martek makes products from microalgae, including nutritional oils
used in infant formula.
Martek's profit falls
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