CellPro's complete victory

CellPro Inc. announced late Friday that it has won its three-year patent battle with Baxter Healthcare Corp., Becton Dickinson and Co. and The Johns Hopkins University, after a jury found that CPRO's Ceprate SC Stem Cell Separation System and its Ceprate LC Laboratory Cell Separation System don't infringe four patents sublicensed to Baxter.

CPRO won a complete victory, as the seven-member jury deliberated for less than seven hours before