KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 -- PureCircle, the world’s leading stevia producer and innovator has won a legal decision in its patent infringement litigation against SweeGen.
On Sept 19, 2018, PureCircle filed a patent infringement case versus SweeGen and its affiliate in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California.
SweeGen attempted to avoid the lawsuit by filing a petition for ‘inter parties review’ before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, challenging the validity of PureCircle’s patent.
On Oct 24, the PTAB issued a decision in PureCircle’s favour. After considering all SweeGen’s assertions, the challenges to the validity of PureCircle’s patent were insufficient.
The patent at issue is US patent number 9,243,273. It relates to PureCircle’s proprietary process to produce Reb M stevia sweetener via bioconversion.
Reb M is one of PureCircle’s next generation sweeteners with a taste profile like sugar. PureCircle has ramped up its ability to produce Reb M in the quantities and at prices its customers need to sell a variety of zero- and low-calorie products sweetened with a plant-based sweetener.
As a result of the PTAB decision and SweeGen’s failure to demonstrate the invalidity of PureCircle’s patent, PureCircle has cleared another hurdle in its patent infringement case.
PureCircle is pleased with the decision of the PTAB, and looks forward to enforcing its patent rights in its Federal District Court litigation against SweeGen.
-- BERNAMA
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