University solar patent smoked in Europe

On 31 March, the EPO revoked a solar photovoltaic technology patent that had been issued to the University of Neuchatel and licensed exclusively to Oerlikon Corp.

The patent holders had gone against users of the "SunFab" thin-film process.

See also:

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/06/academic-patent-dispute-in-europe.html

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