(November 12, 2018, 11:46 AM EST) -- PORTLAND, Maine — Efforts by two defendants to obtain dismissal of allegations that they indirectly infringed a patented design for a flocked swab used to collect biological specimen samples were rejected Nov. 9 by a Maine federal judge (Copan Italia S.p.A., et al. v. Puritan Medical Products Company LLC, et al., No. 18-218, D. Maine, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 191927)....