Settlements announced involving Oxford Nanopore, Thermo FIsher Scientific and Enzo Life Sciences .
New Ruling in Illumina vs. QIAGEN Case
Venlo, the Netherlands and Hilden, Germany 9/10/16; San Francisco, CA 9/9/16–The US District Court for the Northern District of California has granted Illumina’s motion for a preliminary injunction barring the sale of QIAGEN’s GeneReader NGS System and related products in the US. The ruling stems from a patent infringement suit brought in May by Illumina […]
New York, NY 7/7/16—Enzo Biochem’s Enzo Life Sciences subsidiary has finalized a settlement with Illumina resolving a suit brought by the company against Illumina in 2012 in the Delaware Federal District Court. The suit alleged infringement of US Patent No. 7,064,197 (System, Array and Non-Porous Solid Support Comprising Fixing or Immobilized Nucleic Acids) (see IBO […]
Company Announcements Sartorius first quarter sales grew 17.0%, 14% organically, to €301.9 million ($331.8 million) (see IBO 4/30/16). Lab Products & Services (LPS) revenue rose 5.2% organically to account for 25% of revenues, led by strong demand for lab filters. Organic LPS sales in EMEA, Asia Pacific and the Americas grew 0.3%, 8.7% and 14.0% […]
New York, NY 5/16/16—Enzo Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Enzo Biochem, will receive a $35 million payment as part of a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific (formerly Life Technologies) in its suit alleging infringement of US Patents Nos. 6,992,180 (Oligo- or Polynucleotides Comprising Phosphate Moiety Labeled Nucleotides) and 7,064,197 (System, Array and Non-Porous Solid Support […]
IBO’s first of its biannual articles on patent infringement litigation involving analytical instrument and laboratory product companies highlights three new suits and a string of settlements. New Suits Illumina is once again the defendant in a patent infringement case. The nonprofit Scripps Research Institute filed suit in March in the US District Court for the […]
Washington, DC 3/8/16—In a letter to the US International Trade Commission (ITC), Oxford Nanopore denied infringement of a patent held by Illumina that is the subject of a federal suit and complaint filed with the ITC by Illumina (see IBO 2/29/16). Oxford Nanopore contends that Illumina’s actions are intended to “stifle competition,” that it believes […]
San Diego, CA 2/23/16; San Diego, CA 2/23/16; Oxford, UK 2/24/16—NGS company Illumina, the University of Washington and the UAB Research Foundation have filed patent infringement suits against Oxford Nanopore Technologies with the US International Trade Commission and the US District Court for the Southern District of California. The suits allege infringement of US Patents […]
Santa Clara, CA 2/3/16; San Francisco, CA 2/4/16—Agilent Technologies has filed suit against Twist Bioscience, its CEO Emily Leproust, PhD, and 20 unnamed defendants. Filed in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County, the complaint alleges breach of contract, breach of the duty of loyalty and misappropriation of trade secrets. According to the complaint, Dr. […]
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