OTTAWA, CANADA – WiLAN (TSX:WIN) (NASDAQ:WILN) today announced that the Company’s subsidiary, Advanced Microscopy Inc., has entered into a patent license agreement with Leica Microsystems, Inc. The license relates to technology that provides enhanced image processing capabilities. Potential applications relate to the life sciences, material sciences, and semiconductor research. This patent portfolio was acquired through […]

USTIN, Texas–1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (NASDAQ: ASTC), was awarded two patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) securing the company’s core ion trap chemical analyzer technology used for chemical detection and analysis. This increases 1st Detect’s total patent count to 11 U.S. and nine international issued and 11 […]

FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WGBS) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted U.S. Patent 9,132,427 and has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application 12/624,399 with both method and system claims utilizing multi-well chips, respectively. With the grant and allowance of these applications, WaferGen now owns […]

NEW YORK, NY – Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) today announced that it has reached and finalized a settlement with Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) involving payment of $10 million to Enzo in an infringement action brought by Enzo regarding its U.S. Patent No. 7,064,197. Today’s settlement resolving the disputes between Enzo and Affymetrix impacts only one […]

North Brunswick, NJ – Distek, Inc., an industry leader in pharmaceutical laboratory testing instruments, accessories and validation services, has been awarded Japanese Patent 5773914 for their modularity design and the individual position software control. Distek’s patented, self-contained, modularity design is configurable for up to 8 positions when in use on the symphony 7100 “Bathless” Dissolution […]

Schlieren, Switzerland — The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has officially granted InSphero AG full protection of its GravityPLUS™ hanging drop technology. InSphero, the world’s leading developer of easy-to-use solutions for organotypic 3D cell culture models and body-on-a-chip systems, now holds hanging drop patents in the world’s major pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets, including […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — Protein Technologies, Inc. (“PTI” or “the Company”) announced that it has dropped its litigation in the Superior Court of Arizona, County of Pima (Case No. C20150243) against Peptide Solutions, LLC (“PSL”), PSL’s CEO Mahendra Menakuru, and several of PSL’s alleged employees. In return, PSL has agreed to drop its counterclaim suit against […]

BERLIN — caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today that the United States Patent Office has issued patent No. US9,034,789 covering its revolutionary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology. The newly granted patent titled “Capture Compounds , Collections Thereof and Methods for Analyzing the Proteome and Complex Compositions” complements the company’s patent portfolio of more than 40 […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) today announced that 27 new patents have issued during the first half of 2015 that are owned or licensed to BioTime or its subsidiaries. These new patents add to the portfolio of over 700 issued and pending patents and patent applications world wide that are owned or licensed […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. — Implant Sciences Corporation(OTCQB:IMSC), a leading manufacturer of explosives trace detection (ETD) and drugs trace detection solutions for homeland security applications, today announced the award of its 19th patent. Titled “Trace Chemical Particle Release Nozzle” (Patent No. 9,067,219), this patent enhances Implant Sciences’ non-contact sampling capability to allow for its integration and use […]