Thursday 15. January 2009
European Patent Office Confirms Sonoco Alcore’s M-Series Core Patent for Paper Industry
Sonoco Alcore S.a.r.l., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, announced that the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office again upheld the European patent EP 1 071 556 on the use of wide-ply board technology in the production of cores for the paper industry M-Series Cores. The decision can be appealed.