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L.C Laporte Esq.t
P.O: Box 65061
Montreal 30-
Dear Leo,
23 rd September, 19"5.
Bell &- Laing certainly are getting their share
of publicity. If the publicity is really
effective,
you may thir2k it desirable to get some further
advice on the chance of a patent being granted in
Canada. As you will remember, our patents
(Canadiaan 671 310; U-S- 3,113,453 and U K 903
372)
are process claims. Whether we could eif;ctive'ly
argue the product is obvious I do not know.
Fortunately, even if Bell & Laing get a patent,
we probably have covered the best way of making
their product.
Rather than attempt to summarise the position
myself, I have asked R. & D.E. to produce urgently
a Research In-formation Sheet assessing the
present
state of knowledge of the likely or known effect
of the Bell & Laing ci.-arette. Meanwhile if
there is further publicity we would like to
continue
to see it so that we can guess the sort of
question
you mi7ht like answered.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
J. Green
P.S. I am unable to find your letter dated
September
3 rd and would be grateful if you would send
a further copy.
BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 5
November 1999