A California-based medical diagnostics and life sciences manufacturing and sales company, Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Bio-Rad), has agreed to pay a $14.35 million penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by falsifying its books and records and failing to implement adequate internal controls in connection with sales it made in […]
Hercules, CA — —Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the full resolution of previously disclosed investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into past violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that occurred […]
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a clinical diagnostic and life science research company based in California with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when its subsidiaries made improper payments to foreign officials in Russia, Vietnam, and Thailand in order to win business. An SEC investigation found that Bio-Rad Laboratories […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that patent infringement litigation claims against Agilent’s microarray, Bioanalyzer and GeneSpring products have been dismissed by Genetic Technologies, Ltd. No settlement was involved; instead, Genetic Technologies offered to dismiss its claims against Agilent. The parties today filed a mutual dismissal of all claims, in […]
SEATTLE — Visualant, Inc. (OTCQB: VSUL), a leading provider of disruptive light-based technologies, announced today that Intellectual Ventures has filed three additional patents focused upon both unique applications of the Visualant ChromaID™ technology and advancements to the technology itself. Visualant and Intellectual Ventures (IV) entered into a strategic relationship in November of 2013. Pursuant to […]
WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek has been awarded U.S. Patent 8,858,718, covering the use of ultrasonic devices to check for clogged manifold tubes and to clean the manifold tubes of a microplate washer automatically. The two features are known as Verify™ and Ultrasonic Advantage™ and are available in BioTek’s 405 family of microplate washers. Using […]
A lawsuit was filed against Biotage by Scientific Plastic Products, Inc. (“SPP”) concerning alleged infringement of the US patents no 7,138,061, 7,381,327 and 7,410,571. Biotage then filed requests with the US Patent and Trademark Office for re-examination of all patent claims in the three patents mentioned above. At the same time Biotage moved to stay […]
MADISON, WIS. -— Cellular Dynamics International (CDI; Nasdaq: ICEL) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awarded the company Patent No. 8,815,585 on the automated production of human pluripotent stem cells, including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). CDI’s products and services are based on iPSC technology. This patent has broad-reaching effects, covering […]
SEATTLE — Visualant, Inc. (OTCQB: VSUL), a leading provider of disruptive light-based technologies, announced today that Intellectual Ventures has filed three patents focused upon unique applications of the Visualant ChromaID™ technology. Visualant and Intellectual Ventures (IV) entered into a strategic relationship late last year. Pursuant to that agreement Visualant provided ChromaID development kits to Intellectual […]
TUCSON, AZ — CDEX Inc. (OTCBB: CDEX) (OTCQB: CDEX), a pioneering developer, manufacturer and distributor of patented, real-time chemical detection and validation technologies for the healthcare and security markets, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application No. 13/673,270 with claims that cover methods […]
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