SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced that it has filed new legal action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California seeking to stop the infringement of its patented technology by IONpath. In the complaint, Fluidigm alleges that […]

DeNovix was recently sued by Thermofisher for patent infringement. The complaint was filed in U.S. federal district court in Massachusetts on November 21, 2016, but has not yet been served on our company. The complaint alleges our DS-11 spectrophotometer infringes two of its patents, namely, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,628,382 and 6,809,826. These patents were obtained […]

Action Seeks ITC Investigation and Exclusion Order Against Infringing Single-Molecule Sequencing Products MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), today announced that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (the “ITC”) against Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. and its affiliates. The complaint asserts that Oxford Nanopore’s MinION and PromethION […]

-Patent No. 1802752 “Parellel Patch Clamp System” Upheld in European Patent Office- Sunnyvale, California Molecular Devices, LLC, a company committed to providing innovative analytical solutions for protein and cell biology, announced today that its European Patent No. 1802752 titled “Parallel Patch Clamp System” was upheld by the European Patent Office in its original form, following […]

Granted U.S. Patent for fast, highly sensitive chemical analysis without sample preparation Austin, TX 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (NASDAQ: ASTC), announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a key patent for increasing the performance of the company’s unique ion trap mass spectrometer used for chemical analysis and detection. […]

The DS-11 FX Series of Spectrophotometers / Fluorometers from DeNovix has been granted patent US 9,442,009 for its engineered solutions for improving the accuracy of microvolume UV-Vis spectrophotometry. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, USA – DeNovix Inc., a developer and manufacturer of life science instrumentation and assays, today announces the granting of US patent 9,442,009 associated with instrumentation […]

Burnaby, B.C. – Photon Control Inc. (“Photon Control” or the “Company”) (TSX?V: PHO), a leading developer of optical measurement technologies, provides an update to the lawsuit commenced in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against Photon Control R&D Ltd. (“Photon R&D”) and others announced by news release dated August 23, 2016. On September 1 and […]

North Brunswick, NJ – Distek, Inc., a leading manufacturer of laboratory testing instruments for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, as well as an experienced provider of validation and qualification services, has been awarded U.S. Patent 9,333,469 for their multi-motion assembly design. Distek’s patented, multi-motion assembly design, also known as D-Drive, allows for one assembly mechanism […]

FREMONT, Calif., – WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application 14/075,631, with both method and system claims to extract liquids containing single cell Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) libraries from multi-well arrays. With the allowance of this application, WaferGen […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — The BioStack™ 4 Microplate Stacker from BioTek Instruments has been granted U.S. patent 9,366,686 for its unique technology associated with automatic microplate de-lidding and re-lidding, which is especially useful in cell-based assay workflows. BioStack 4 facilitates increased throughput and greater productivity in processes involving lidded and unlidded 96-, 384- and 1536-well […]