Hamburg — Eppendorf AG (“Eppendorf”) has successfully enforced its

Chinese patent ZL200710079795.X, covering its vortexing technology for mixers used in the

Eppendorf MixMate®. Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court issued judgment Yi Zhong

Min Chu Zi No. 871 on December 10, 2014, finding that the manufacturer Hangzhou

Allsheng Instruments Co., Ltd. (“Allsheng”) and its distributor Beijing Aochuang Industrial

Technology Development Co., Ltd. infringed upon the Eppendorf patent. The ruling forbids

production, offer and sale of the infringing mixer product by Allsheng and sale and offer of

the product by its distributor, and awards Eppendorf monetary damages and compensation

for expenses. The ruling is final and in force.

This was the first patent suit initiated by Eppendorf in the People’s Republic of China.

“Eppendorf sees this ruling as a confirmation of its patent strategy of filing a substantial

number of its inventions for patent protection in China. It is important to see that we are able

to successfully enforce intellectual property rights in China.” commented Sven Bülow, Ph.D.,

Executive Vice President Corporate Development at Eppendorf AG.

About Eppendorf AG:

Eppendorf is a leading life science company that develops and sells instruments,

consumables, and services for liquid handling, sample handling, and cell handling in

laboratories worldwide. Its product range includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems,

dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers, and DNA amplification equipment as well as

ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers, and cell

manipulation systems. Consumables such as pipette tips, test tubes, microliter plates, and

disposable bioreactors complement the range of highest-quality premium products.

Eppendorf products are most broadly used in academic and commercial research

laboratories, e.g., in companies from the pharmaceutical and biotechnological as well as the

chemical and food industries. They are also aimed at clinical and environmental analysis

laboratories, forensics, and at industrial laboratories performing process analysis,

production, and quality assurance.

Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1945 and has about 2,850 employees

worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 25 countries and is represented in all other

markets by distributors.