{"id":24416,"date":"2021-03-09T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=24416"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:27:48","slug":"vaping-news-uk-revokes-bat-hnb-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/24416","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: UK REVOKES BAT HNB PATENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"2q5sh-0-0\">&#8220;A London judge has revoked a British American Tobacco unit&#8217;s patents for a &#8220;heat-not-burn&#8221; electronic cigarette, saying on Tuesday it lacked an &#8220;inventive step&#8221; over a decades-old Philip Morris invention. In his decision, High Court Judge Richard Meade also invalidated the two patents because they included amendments that &#8220;added matter&#8221; with new information about the invention \u2015 for a device that generates a nicotine-containing aerosol \u2015 that was not apparent from the original application.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/1362808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Morris Gets BAT E-Cig Patents Invalidated In UK<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20UK%20REVOKES%20BAT%20HNB%20PATENTS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A London judge has revoked a British American Tobacco unit&#8217;s patents for a &#8220;heat-not-burn&#8221; electronic cigarette, saying on Tuesday it lacked an &#8220;inventive step&#8221; over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24417,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24416\/revisions\/24417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}