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Australians buying cigarettes are now guaranteed to face warnings that include photos of a gangrenous limb and a cancer victim as the world’s first law requiring tobacco sales in uniform packages takes effect.
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Gevo Inc., a company involved developing the technology for biofuels, will ask the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate a patent issued to Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, the Englewood, Colorado-based company said in a statement.
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Remember when a pack of smokes came with glitzy logos, rich foil sleeves, and romanticized language describing the pleasures within?
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Australia is poised to become the first nation to require tobacco products to be sold in plain packages, a move that could see other countries follow suit and crimp earnings of companies like British American Tobacco Plc.
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British American Tobacco Plc’s Australian unit, maker of the country’s most popular cigarette brand Winfield, introduced its first discount label to compete with illegal tobacco products.
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Apple Inc.’s former Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, who said Aug. 24 he was resigning from his post, was a prolific inventor, if issued Apple patents are any indication.
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Philip Morris International Inc., the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company, said an Australian proposal requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packages violates a treaty with Hong Kong and may cause billions of dollars in damages.
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Australia will become the first country to require cigarettes to be sold in uniform packages after its top court rejected a challenge from tobacco companies, setting a precedent for other nations to follow.
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Microsoft Corp. , the world’s largest software company, sued a unit of the U.K.’s Amphion Innovations Plc , seeking a court declaration that two patents are invalid.
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