Washington, DC 9/25/09—In a filing with the SEC, Varian and Agilent disclosed that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding for settlement of the class action lawsuits filed by Varian shareholders against the companies and company personnel (see IBO 9/15/09). The suits, which were subsequently consolidated, alleged that Varian’s directors breached their fiduciary duties […]
Wilmington, DE 8/13/09—Life Technologies has filed a patent infringement action against Bio-Rad Laboratories in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. The law suit alleges infringement of four patents: US Patent Nos. 6,703,484; 7,223,566; 7,259,242 (each entitled “Methods for Production of Proteins”); and 7,265,206 (entitled “Methods of Production of Proteins”). The complaint alleges […]
Pleasanton, CA 8/24/09—Hitachi High-Technologies America announced that on August 6 the US District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit brought against the company by Brigham Young University and Torion Technologies (see IBO 12/15/08). The suit alleged infringement of US Patent No. 7,060,987 (“Electron Ionization Source for Orthogonal Acceleration […]
Billerica, MA 8/20/09—Bruker has announced that the Japan Patent Office has invalidated Digilab’s (Varian’s) Japanese Patent Number 3 076 013 on a Focal Plan Array-based imaging Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) system. As a result, Bruker Optics Japan and other manufacturers can now sell imaging FT-IR spectrometers and FT-IR microscope systems with ATR imaging capabilities in […]
Company Announcements In April, a class action complaint was filed in federal court in Maryland against the Republic of Iraq, VWR, Thermo Fisher Scientific (previously Oxoid) and Alcolac (whose assets are owned by Rhodia). The suit alleges violation of the Geneva Convention, UN Security Council resolutions and international law, as well as negligence, strict liability, […]
San Diego, CA 6/22/09; Washington, DC 6/25/09—The US District Court for the Southern District of California has dismissed Beckman Coulter and Orchid Cellmark’s patent infringement suit against Sequenom (see IBO 6/15/08), following the parties’ stipulation for dismissal. Sequenom stated that the patent infringement action was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again, and […]
Portola Valley, CA 5/6/09; Oakland, CA 5/6/09—Spectros, a provider of molecular sensing and imaging devices, has filed a patent infringement suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Spectros alleges fluorospectrometers sold by Thermo, including the Nanodrop 3300, infringe US Patent No. 6,711,426 (Spectroscopy Illuminator with Improved […]
Washington, DC 5/20/09; San Jose, CA 5/6/09—The US District Court for the Northern District of California has preliminarily approved a settlement agreement between Affymetrix and shareholders in a 2006 shareholder derivative action brought against company officers. Shareholder derivative actions are lawsuits brought by shareholders against a company’s management for the violation of fiduciary duties. Three […]
San Diego, CA 5/5/09—Illumina, a supplier of genomic analysis instrumentation and consumables, has filed a patent infringement suit against microarray firm Affymetrix. Filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, the suit alleges that Affymetrix’s GeneChip HT Array Plate and HT Array Place Scanner infringe Illumina’s US Patent No. 7,510,841 (Methods […]
Appeals US federal appeals courts have ruled on two long running patent infringement cases involving Applied Biosystems and Waters. Last fall, the US District Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on appeals brought by Cohesive Technologies (now Thermo Fisher Scientific) and Waters related to Cohesive’s 1998 suit against Waters (see IBO 12/15/98). In […]
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