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12/21/05 11:18 PM

#121 RE: mick #120

Dow Chemical announces it prevails in Patent Dispute Over Natreon* Canola Oil (DOW) 43.58 +0.33:Co announces a federal court judge has ruled that Cargill, failed to disclose material information to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office while pursuing patents on healthy canola oils with increased stability. In the lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Cargill originally alleged that Dow and its customer, Canbra Foods, were infringing four Cargill patents on high stability canola oils by producing and selling Dow's Natreon* canola oil.