SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that District Court Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Illumina’s motion for summary judgment that its sequencing systems do not infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 5,616,478; 5,958,698 and 6,001,568, being asserted by Life Technologies Corporation in a […]
The European Patent Office has issued a European Patent to Dr. Harald Hess and Dr. Eric Betzig for their invention of super-resolution Photo Activated Localization Microscopy (PAL-M). Based on the same invention, several patents were issued in the years from 2009 to 2011 by the US Patent Office. The patent EP 1894010 B1, whose issue […]
COLUMBIA, Md.– W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE: GRA), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alltech Associates, Inc., filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against Teledyne Technologies, Inc., doing business as Teledyne Isco of Lincoln, Neb., for infringement of four Grace U.S. Patents that cover its proprietary Reveleris® X2 flash chromatography […]
SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that a federal jury in Tacoma, Washington found that Illumina’s BeadChip array product infringed U.S. Patent No.6,951, 682, asserted by Syntrix Biosystems, Inc. The federal jury ordered Illumina to pay approximately $96 million in damages to Syntrix based on a royalty rate of six percent for BeadChip […]
Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay the United States $5.65 million to resolve claims that it knowingly presented false claims to the United States for laboratory research products sold to federal agencies through Corning’s Life Sciences division. Corning, a New York based corporation, creates and makes glass and ceramic components for consumer electronics, mobile emissions […]
(DENVER, CO, US – 21 February 2013) – MPEG LA today announced that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has become a participating patent holder in Librassay® , MPEG LA’s licensing supermarket of diagnostic and research tool patent rights for tests and assays, kits, tools and instruments for biomarker detection and analysis, diagnostics and research. […]
REDWOOD CITY – XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, reports on the recent announcement that the company has been awarded a patent for its innovative TEM Wand™ technology. January 8th, 2013, was an important day in the history of XEI Scientific. The […]
A University of Texas at Arlington chemist’s work to develop a more efficient, effective way of measuring ions in solution has led to a new device in the scientific marketplace that could improve water quality testing and manufacturing methods. Purnendu “Sandy” Dasgupta invented the charge detector for ion chromatography, along with Bingcheng Yang, a member […]
ARLINGTON, TX and SAN JOSE, Calif. — The University of Texas at Arlington and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced that they have been granted a United States patent (#8,293,099) for a novel charge detector for ion chromatography that they developed together. The invention has been commercialized as the Thermo […]
Austin, Texas, –Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that the United States Patent Office (“USPTO”) has allowed the issuance of a key patent for the company’s unique method to miniaturize the electrical circuitry for a mass spectrometer ion trap used for chemical analysis and detection. “We are extremely pleased that the […]
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