In this issue, IBO presents its second look this year at patent infringement litigation involving lab instrument and product companies. New Suits Legal activity has heightened between Illumina and sequencing services provider Complete Genomics. In June, Illumina filed a second patent infringement suit against publicly held Complete Genomics, which is set to be acquired by […]
Madison, WI 9/13/12—Promega announced that the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has overruled a February jury ruling in favor of Promega in the company’s 2010 patent infringement suit against Life Technologies (see IBO 2/29/12). According to Promega, the ruling leaves intact the prior ruling that Life Technologies’ US sales of short […]
Hillsboro, OR 8/20/12; Tokyo, Japan 8/21/12—Hitachi High-Technologies and FEI have settled their Japanese patent dispute related to focused ion beam technology for electron microscopes. Under the agreement, FEI will make a one-time payment of $15 million, Hitachi High-Technologies will dismiss its pending claims and the firms will cross license patents. Having previously recorded a $5.4 […]
Santa Clara, CA 7/25/12—Agilent Technologies has announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected the claims of and revoked Affymetrix’s EP 0853679 entitled “Expression Monitoring by Hybridization to High Density Oligonucleotide Arrays.” The ruling is the result of an appeal by Agilent, Combimatrix and Clonediag of a previous decision. The case dates back to […]
Company Announcements In March, a Delaware District Court consolidated shareholders’ class action suits against Illumina’s Board, alleging breach of fiduciary duties in connection with Roche’s tender offer (see IBO 1/31/12). In February, Waters acquired the net assets of its Israeli sales and service distributor for $6 million in cash. DKSH, a provider of market expansion […]
In IBO’s first look this year at instrument and laboratory product firms’ patent infringement litigation, familiar names abound. New Litigation Last month, Illumina was named the defendant in a patent infringement suit brought in Delaware District Court. The initial complaint named only Columbia University as the plaintiff. An amended complaint filed in April listed Intelligent […]
Boston, MA 2/29/12; Boston, MA 3/28/12—PerkinElmer has filed suit against two companies in Massachusetts District Court, claiming infringement of its patents for MS technology. PerkinElmer claims Waters’s Premier, Synapt and Xevo MS systems infringe US Patent Nos. 5,652,427 and 5,962,851 (Multipole Ion Guide for Mass Spectrometry). PerkinElmer alleges Agilent Technologies’ 6100 Series Quadrupole, 6200 Series […]
Washington, DC 2/29/12—Bruker reported in its 10K SEC filing that it has completed its internal investigation of improper payments by Bruker Optics employees to Chinese government-owned enterprises (see IBO 8/15/11). The company found evidence that improper payments were made that did not comply with its policies and standards of conduct. As a result, Bruker terminated […]
Larchmont, NY 3/1/12; San Diego, CA 3/1/12—A Delaware District Court jury has found that certain Illumina sample preparation and cluster generation kits infringe LadaTech’s US Patent No. 6,107,023 (see IBO 4/30/10). According to LadaTech, the patent covers the DNA amplification process required for sample preparation and cluster station amplification steps. The jury also found the […]
Madison, WI 2/15/12—A jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has awarded Promega $52.0 million in damages for willful infringement of its Short Tandem Repeat (STR) patents by Life Technologies. The Court may increase the damages and will consider an injunction against Life Technologies for the sale of the infringing […]
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