CLARENCE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII), a company that has developed groundbreaking technology for tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation products, today announced that the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China issued a Notice of Allowance and IP Australia issued a patent to the company for the NBB gene, a gene responsible for nicotine production in the tobacco plant.
