A federal judge in Maine paused Copan Italia SpA’s four-year legal fight with Puritan Medical Products Co. over patents for virus-testing swabs until Puritan’s twin appeals of a rejected dismissal bid—in which Puritan had argued a federal law’s immunity provision protects it from such suits—are resolved.
At the start of June, Judge Jon D. Levy of the US District Court for the District of Maine denied Puritan’s request to toss the case, rejecting Puritan’s contention it was immune with respect to any flocked swabs made at the P3 factory because it built the factory to meet its contractual demands. …
