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U.S. Patent Office Issues Final Written Decision Finding All Challenged Claims of Sun Pharma’s Patent 11,697,028 To Be Unpatentable
WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biofrontera Inc. (Nasdaq: BFRI), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the commercialization and development of photodynamic therapy (“PDT”), today announced that on February 23, 2026, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) issued a Final Written Decision finding all challenged claims of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc.’s U.S. Patent No. 11,697,028 (the “’028 Patent”) to be unpatentable. As previously disclosed in Biofronter
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