On February 4, Tokyo Customs officially accepted a petition filed by Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) on August 9, 2010 to prohibit the import of FIB/SEM systems produced by U.S.-based FEI Company to Japan based on claims that the FEI/SEM systems produced by FEI Company violated its rights with respect to patents held […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – ACEA Biosciences, Inc., a pioneer in the development of high-performance microelectronic systems for cell-based assays, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical research, is pleased to report the issuance of a new U. S. Patent for chemical compound screening, with important applications in the development of new pharmaceutical products. Testing and profiling of these candidate […]

TORRANCE, Calif. – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announced today that the University of Delaware has withdrawn a lawsuit for patent infringement brought against the company. The lawsuit, first filed in 2005, claimed that Phenomenex used technology from a University-owned patent related to […]

JENA/Germany — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Dr. Eric Betzig and Dr. Harald Hess another patent for their invention of super- resolution localization microscopy. In 2007, the microscopy from Carl Zeiss received the exclusive rights to market the technology. Together with the previously issued patents (U.S. 7,626,694, U.S. 7,828,695, U.S. 7,626,703 […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for the process used in on-array capture of genomic elements for downstream analysis, including next- generation sequencing. The patent was issued for a method that uses oligonucleotide probes attached to a solid support as a sequence-specific affinity […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) today announced that the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rendered a decision in a previously announced patent interference provoked by Pacific Biosciences related to single molecule sequencing. The decision cancels all patent claims by […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for the process used to apply the superficially porous shell to particles in Agilent Poroshell 120 high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns. The patent was issued for the unique coacervation process used to manufacture the Poroshell 120 silica. […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for the process used to apply the superficially porous shell to particles in Agilent Poroshell 120 high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns. The patent was issued for the unique coacervation process used to manufacture the Poroshell 120 silica. The process applies the […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – Entelos, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 7,853,406 entitled “Predictive Toxicology for Biological Systems” to the Company. This method to identify a potential toxicity of a therapy in a biological system, modeling a plurality of biological processes of the biological system, further […]

SAN RAMON, Calif. – Odyssey Thera, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent No. 7,855,167. The invention describes technologies and high-throughput methods for identifying bimolecular interactions in vivo based on protein-fragment complementation assays (PCA). The patent, the eighteenth assigned to Odyssey Thera, further protects assays utilizing fragments of […]