ACell Inc wins court battle initiated by Cook Biotech and Purdue federal appeals court overturns infringement verdict against ACell and rejects Purdue Research Foundation's appeal of patent inventorship.

(From Chemical Business NewsBase - Press Release)

Acell Inc the owner of highly valued extracellular matrix (ECM) patents won a resounding legal victory against Cook Biotech Inc (Cook) and Purdue Research Foundation (Purdue). The victory frees ACell to broadly promote the development, licensing and commercialization of its remarkable tissue graft biotechnology. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, unanimously reversed a Jul 2005 finding of patent infringement, holding instead that ACell's product does not infringe Purdue's patent. The Court of Appeals held that the district court erroneously …