While the Norwegian judgement does not affect BioMar’s right to continue to produce and sell the current product portfolio for smoltification in any countries, BioMar has decided to appeal the judgement on having infringed one of the two existing STIM patents in Norway and violated the Marketing Act. The company does not agree to have copied a technology protected by valid patents or carried out other wrongdoings by the launch of the previous version of their smolt transfer product Intro Tuning:
Supported by expert patent lawyers the STIM patent case against BioMar in Norway will therefore be appealed. Both BioMar and two other leading feed companies have challenged STIM’s patent by filing oppositions at the European Patent office (EPO). If the oppositions succeed this will automatically lead to revocation of STIM’s patent also in Norway.
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