Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a favorable legal ruling from the European Patent Office regarding Agilent’s opposition to patent EP 0853679, assigned to Affymetrix. On Oct. 21, 2003, Agilent joined Combimatrix and Clonediag in opposing the patent, titled “Expression Monitoring by Hybridization to High Density Oligonucleotide Arrays.” Agilent opposed the breadth of the […]

WILMINGTON, MA, –As it continues to increase the global reach of its explosives trace detection equipment, Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced it has received the grant of a new patent by the Patent Office of the Russian […]

DNA2.0 announced that the USPTO has recognized its bioengineering work by awarding the company a new patent. Patent 8,158,391 covers genetic modifications to yeast of the genus Candida that enable them to produce commercially valuable yields of omega hydroxy fatty acids. Until now, these key chemical building blocks could only be produced using synthetic chemistry, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– Complete Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNOM), announced today that it intends to vigorously defend itself against the patent infringement suit recently filed by Illumina, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The complaint alleges that Complete infringes a single Illumina patent relating to a “Method for Sequencing a […]

BioTek announces receipt of European Patent EP 2 093 572 B1, covering the ultrasonic cleaning and maintenance feature used in their microplate washers. Known as Ultrasonic Advantage™, this unique cleaning technology is incorporated into most of BioTek’s microplate washers including the 405™ Touch, 405 LS, ELx405™ Select Deep Well Microplate Washers and the EL406™ Microplate […]

Between 2006 and 2008 the Austrian measuring instrument manufacturer, Anton Paar GmbH, terminated its sales contracts with the Swiss DKSH Group for China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. Subsequently, on November 14, 2008, DKSH sued Anton Paar GmbH for damages at the International Court of Arbitration (ICC). DKSH’s demand amounted to 5.9 million CHF and was […]

WILMINGTON, MA, — Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced that it has been issued patent # 8,173,959 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, “Real-Time Trace Detection by High Field and Low Field Ion Mobility and […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.)– Helicos BioSciences Corporation (OTCQB: HLCS.PK) announced today that it has settled its patent infringement litigation against Pacific Biosciences, Inc. The settlement gives Pacific Biosciences freedom-to-operate from Helicos’s patents within a limited field of use covering Pacific Biosciences’ current products only. In addition to paying an undisclosed financial settlement, Pacific Biosciences agreed to refrain […]

In compliance with ASX Continuing Disclosure Rules, Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE) is pleased to report that it has executed a Settlement and License Agreement with GeneSeek Inc. (“GeneSeek”) of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA (see: https://www.neogen.com/geneseek/). Under the terms of the Agreement, GeneSeek is granted certain non-exclusive rights to a number of GTG patents […]