Carlsbad, CA 1/27/09—Life Technologies announced that a jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of California rendered a verdict in favor of the company in its patent infringement dispute with Illumina (see IBO 12/15/08). Life Technologies stated that following a seven-day trial, the jury ruled that Applied Biosystems’ SOLiD technology for DNA […]
Venlo, The Netherlands 1/22/09—Corbett, QIAGEN, ITF Labortechnik and Applied Biosystems have settled their disputes concerning the infringement by Corbett’s Rotor-Gene Real-Time PCR-Cyclers of Applied Biosystems’ Real-Time Thermal Cycler Instrument patents. Corbett, which was acquired by QIAGEN last year (see IBO 7/15/08), has entered into an agreement to license certain technology from Applied Biosystems related to […]
Salt Lake City, Utah 12/8/08—Brigham Young University (BYU) and MS company Torion Technologies have filed suit against Hitachi High-Technologies America in the US District Court for the District of Utah, alleging infringement of US Patent No. 7,060,987, entitled “Electron Ionization Source for Orthogonal Acceleration Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry.” BYU granted Torion an exclusive license to the […]
IBO’s latest survey of US litigation among selected instrument and lab product companies finds one case set for trial, four new cases and a series of settlements. Among the suits that have settled or have been voluntarily dismissed are suits that were detailed in our last overview of patent litigation in July (see IBO 7/15/08). […]
After 30 years, and a 2005 court order, last month, the US EPA finalized new primary and secondary national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for lead. The new primary and secondary standards for lead each tighten the limits of concentrated lead from 1.5 µg/m3 to 0.15 µg/m3 . The primary standard is the standard set […]
Hartford, CT 11/12/08; New York, NY 11/12/08; Baltimore, MD 11/14/08—A class action law suit has been brought against Waters by shareholders who purchased the company’s stock between January 24, 2007 and January 22, 2008. The suit alleges that Waters violated securities law by failing to disclose a slowdown in Japanese sales due to government regulations; […]
In a development that observers deemed a significant action for US product safety regulations, the US Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 this month. The bill has been sent to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law, lowers allowable limits for lead and for six types of phthalates […]
In the first of IBO’s twice yearly report on new litigation among analytical instrument and laboratory product providers, we take a look at new patent infringement cases, as well as update the latest developments in other cases. Two cases are scheduled to come to trial in the next few months, patents related to microarray technology […]
Company Announcements In 2007, Biolin AB acquired UK-based Nima Technology, a provider of Langmuir Blodgett instruments for the analysis of monolayers and of tensiometers. Brightwell Scientific announced in November 2007 that Benelux Scientific will distribute its Micro Flow Imaging particle analysis products in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. On January 1, Setaram began exclusively distributing […]
Cambridge, MA and Bothell, WA 3/31/08—Synthetic biology firm Codon Devices and Blue Heron Biotechnology, a provider of gene synthesis services, have settled their legal dispute stemming from Codon’s 2007 suit against Blue Heron. The suit alleged infringement of four patents owned by Duke University (US Patent Nos. 5,459,039; 5,556,750; 5,679,522; and 5,702,894) and one MIT […]
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