Company Announcements Millipore named Dr. Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, to its Board. He replaces Dr. Daniel Bellus. PerkinElmer OneSource, which provides an integrated service suit, and VWR are developing a joint offering for multivendor maintenance and qualification services. PerkinElmer’s Chief Administrative Officer Richard F. Walsh announced he will […]
San Diego, CA 1/15/09—Sequenom has settled a consolidated securities class action lawsuit. Filed between April and June 2009 in the US District Court for the Southern District of California, the 12 suits charged certain Sequenom’s officers and directors with violations of the antifraud provision of US securities law by making false and misleading statements about […]
Toronto, Canada 1/25/10; Toronto, Canada 1/27/10; Washington, DC 1/27/10—The sale of MDS Analytical Technologies to Danaher (see IBO 9/15/09) is expected to close by the end of the first quarter, following the resolution of PerkinElmer’s legal challenge and the approval of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). MDS has signed a settlement agreement with PerkinElmer, […]
Los Angeles, CA 11/9/09—LC column developer and supplier Phenomenex has filed suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific in the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging false advertising and unfair competition. The action is in connection with an email sent in October by a Thermo Fisher product manager to US distributors. Phenomenex seeks […]
Boston, MA 12/2/09; Boston, MA 12/29/09—Thermo Fisher Scientific has filed suit against Innov-X Systems, a developer and manufacturer of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) systems. The suit filed in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts charges Innov-X with false advertising, unfair competition, deceptive trade practices, intentional interference with business relations, product disparagement and business defamation. […]
Brussels, Belgium 12/22/09—Dow Jones has reported that the European Commission (EC) extended the deadline for its antitrust review of Agilent’s acquisition of Varian (see IBO 7/31/09) by 10 working days to January 20. By that date, the EC will either clear the acquisition or launch an investigation. The extension was due to “commitments” by Agilent […]
Company Announcements In August, plaintiffs dismissed their class action suit against VWR alleging the sale of chemicals to Saddam Hussein’s regime that were later used as weapons (see IBO 7/31/09). In October, the same action against Thermo Fisher Scientific was dismissed. Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies announced the election of three new directors to expand […]
Madison, WI 11/3/09—Life science research instrument company Illumina has filed suit against microarray provider Affymetrix in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Illumina alleges infringement of US Patent No. 7,612,020 (Composite Array Utilizing Microspheres With a Hybridization Chamber) by Affymetrix’s Array Plate products, the GeneChip HT Array Plate Scanner, GeneChip HT […]
New suits as well as a number of settlement agreements highlight IBO’s second look this year (see IBO 4/30/09) at patent infringement activity in US courts among instrument and lab product companies. New Suits Life Technologies has filed a string of new infringement actions in recent months. In addition to the company’s complaint against Bio-Rad […]
Washington, DC 10/5/09—Sequenom has announced in a filing with the SEC that the US Attorneys Office, FBI and the NASDAQ have each met with the company regarding the results of its independent investigation into the development of a prenatal test for Down syndrome (see IBO 9/30/09). The investigation resulted in the firing of two company […]
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