US Patent Office Board confirms that Scent-Lok Technologies’ innovations are patentable!

Since 2004, Scent-Lok Technologies has been engaged in a lengthy Reexamination process before the US Patent Office regarding one of its five US patents relating to odor adsorbing hunting products and practices.  On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Patent Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences issued its long-awaited decision confirming the patentability of 40 of the 68 claims at issue.  Specifically, the Board ruled, among other things, that Scent-Lok Technologies had proven that its hunting products and processes integrating activated charcoal were not obvious modifications of the known products and practices.  This decision validates Scent-Lok Technologies’ longstanding assertions of the patentability of many of its innovations.  As we take the time to celebrate this important victory, we want to thank our loyal customers, licensees, suppliers and retailers for their support through this long and arduous process.