Apieron, Inc. Files Infringement Complaint Against Aerocrine AB, Aerocrine AG and Mr. Magnus Pelles

16/07/2009 16:37

PR Newswire

MENLO PARK, California, July 16 /PRNewswire/ --

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.

About Apieron, Inc.

Apieron, Inc. is a private venture-backed medical device company

dedicated to developing innovative solutions to improve the standard of care

for people with asthma. Its Insight(TM) eNO System measures exhaled nitric

oxide (eNO) which is a well established indicator of airway inflammation for

asthma management. Utilizing a proprietary biosensor, Apieron's Insight eNO

System can detect trace amounts of nitric oxide in a patient's breath. It is

highly accurate, non-invasive, safe, easy to use, and provides results in

less than a minute.

Contact:

Steve DiMattia


+1-646-201-5445

Steve DiMattia, +1-646-201-5445, for Apieron, Inc.






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