Philip Morris International Fails in Bid to Lift IQOS Import Ban in the U.S.
Core tip: News today, April 1. According to foreign media reports, a Philip Morris International subsidiary failed to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a U.S. trade agency order barring imports.
Today, on April 1, news reports that a subsidiary of Philip Morris International failed to convince the U.S. Federal Circuit Court to overturn the order from the U.S. trade agency that prohibits the import of heated tobacco products that infringe on two patents held by a subsidiary of British American Tobacco.
The Federal Circuit Court confirmed the U.S. trade agency's ban on IQOS imports, and the decision of the U.S. International Trade Commission was fully upheld in the case opinion released by the U.S. Federal Circuit Court on Friday.
