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Religious order accused L'Oreal products of misusing

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Appeals court revived case after 2021 dismissal

By Blake Brittain

March 5 (Reuters) - Cosmetics giant L'Oreal USA

has settled a patent case brought by a Christian

religious order and the University of Massachusetts over patents

related to an anti-aging skin cream, the parties said in a court

filing.

L'Oreal, UMass and Carmel Laboratories told a Delaware

federal court on Monday that they had resolved their dispute and

would seek to dismiss the case by March 22.

Details of the settlement were not available, and

representatives for the parties did not immediately respond to

requests for comment and more information on Tuesday.

Carmel is a subsidiary of Teresian Carmelites Inc, a

Worcester, Massachusetts-based religious community and monastery

led by former Catholic monk Dennis Wyrzykowski. Carmel and

UMass, whose patents the group licenses to make its Easeamine

anti-aging face cream, sued L'Oreal in 2017.

The lawsuit said that L'Oreal's RevitaLift moisturizer and

unnamed products for Maybelline, Lancome, and other L'Oreal

brands infringed patents related to skin creams with the

chemical adenosine.

According to the complaint, a L'Oreal representative

discussed the patented technology with its inventor, UMass

medical-school professor and Teresian Carmelite community member

James Dobson, in 2003.

L'Oreal denied the allegations and convinced the court to

invalidate the patents in 2021. The U.S. Court of Appeals for

the Federal Circuit revived the patents and the case in 2022.

The case is University of Massachusetts v. L'Oreal USA Inc,

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, No.

1:17-cv-00868.

For UMass and Carmel Laboratories: Bill Carmody, Davida

Brook, Justin Nelson, Tamar Lusztig and Beatrice Franklin of

Susman Godfrey

For L'Oreal: Eric Dittmann, Isaac Ashkenazi, Bruce Wexler,

Naveen Modi, Joseph Palys and Robert Unikel of Paul Hastings;

Dennis Ellis, Katherine Murray and Serli Polatoglu of Ellis

George

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(Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington)