Biopure Corporation announced today that it has successfully defended a challenge at the European Patent Office (EPO) to its European Patent entitled, "A Method for Chromatographic Removal of Prions." This European Patent covers Biopure's innovative purification method for removing potentially infectious prion proteins from oxygen therapeutics and provides Biopure with granted patent rights to its method in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. The Opposition Division of the EPO supported Biopure's rights to all of the claims originally granted by the EPO without any modifications or restrictions. The patent challenge was brought in an Opposition by Switzerland-based Octapharma AG. Biopure also has granted patents covering its novel method in many additional countries, including the United States.
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