MENLO PARK, California, July 16 --
Today, Apieron, Inc. (http://www.apieron.com/) reported that it filed a patent
infringement complaint against Aerocrine AB, Solna, Sweden, Aerocrine AG, Bad
Homburg, Germany and Mr. Magnus Pelles, Usingen, Germany in the Regional Court
of Mannheim, Germany. Apieron, makers of the Insight(TM) eNO System for
measurement of exhaled nitric oxide, presented this complaint against Aerocrine
on the grounds that they are offering and putting on the market portable and
stationary analyzers to detect the nitric oxide content in breath, which Apieron
considers to be infringing the German part of its European Patent EP 0 892 926.
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