SAN DIEGO & SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX – News) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN – News) announced today that they have entered into a settlement agreement to resolve their patent litigation. Under the terms of the settlement, Illumina agreed, without admitting liability, to make a one-time payment to Affymetrix of $90 million. Affymetrix agreed to […]
FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI – News), an Applera Corporation business, and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A – News) today announced that they have entered into a settlement agreement resolving patent infringement lawsuits originally filed by Applera against Stratagene (acquired by Agilent in 2007), alleging infringement of Applera’s real-time thermal cycler instrument patents. […]
Boulder, Colo., — CDEX Inc. and Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc. announced today that they entered into a settlement agreement with regards to Civil Action No. 06-CV-426-RDB-CBS that was pending before the U.S. Federal District Court in Denver, Colorado. As part of the Settlement Agreement, CDEX has been fully licensed under ASD’s patent for liquid pharmaceuticals. […]
BIOWIRE2K FOSTER CITY, Calif.–Sept. 5, 2006–Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement with Promega Corporation resolving outstanding legal disputes between the two companies. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Savannah, GA—Health Discovery, a biomarker and pathway discovery company, has filed suit against Ciphergen Biosystems and software company Equbits in US District Court. Health Discovery alleges infringement of three patents related to support vector machine technology. Ciphergen and Equbits issued no statements.
St. Louis, MO; Huntsville, AL- Sigma-Aldrich and Oxford BioMedica have filed suit in US District Court against Open Biosystems. The suit alleges that Open Biosystems’ products, including the Lentiviral shRNAmir Library, infringe two patents covering lentiviral-based systems for the delivery of foreign DNA to mammalian cells that Sigma-Aldrich exclusively licensed for research use from Oxford […]
Shiga, Japan: La Jolla, CA-Takara Bio and Stratagene have settled their patent disputes regarding enzyme blends used in PCR technology. Financial details were unavailable. “We believe that there are a number of competitors selling products that are covered under our patent portfolio. It is our intention to make limited licenses available and recognize resulting licensing […]
Shiga, Japan,: La Jolla, CA-Takara Bioand Stratagene have settled their patent disputes regarding enzyme blendsused in PCR technology. Financial details were unavailable. “We believe that there are a number of competitors selling products that are covered under our patent portfolio. It is our intention to make limited licenses available and recognize resulting licensing revenue,” stated […]
Hawthorne, CA- A US District court jury has awarded OSI Systems $125.6 million in damages in its case against L-3 Communications. The jury awarded $33 million in compensatory damages and $92.6 million in punitive damages, finding that L-3 breached its fiduciary duty and committed fraud against OSI. The suit stems from L-3’s 2002 purchase of […]
San Francisco, CA – Dr. Chi Yang, the CEO of SynPep, a provider of custom peptide synthesis and antibody research products, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 13 counts of mail fraud and false statements for falsifying the purity levels of the company’s peptide products. The indictment claims that under Dr. Yang’s supervision, […]
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