Patent strengthens company’s intellectual property protection and expands portfolio FARMINGTON, Conn.— Shoreline Biome, a microbiome research company that develops tools for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, today announced that the company was recently awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the “Combined Lysis Protocol for Comprehensive Cell […]

DUBLIN, Ireland: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property held by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, has today provided comment on the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO/PTAB) rulings in the motions phase of the ongoing patent interference between the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Dr. […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) — Lighthouse Genomics Inc. (“Lighthouse” or the “Company”), announces filing a US patent application and Canadian trademark applications in the months of July and August. The new Intellectual Property (IP) holdings expand the company’s protection to operate with key branding and methods in the fast-growing […]

Regarding the patent lawsuit initiated by Illumina against MGI in Hong Kong, the specific impact has yet to be determined. MGI believes that this patent litigation is an obvious attempt by Illumina to maintain a monopolistic market position and suppress the development of the industry. We intend to vigorously defend our intellectual property, and we have filed patent litigation against […]

TUCSON, Ariz.  — HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a life science company whose mission is to advance precision medicine, today provided an update regarding its patent infringement claims against BioSpyder Technologies, Inc (BioSpyder). On August 13, 2020, BioSpyder filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration that it does not infringe HTG’s U.S. Patent No. 8,741,564 (the ’564 patent). In […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.–On Wednesday, August 12, 2020, BioSpyder Technologies, Inc. (“BioSpyder”) filed a civil action in the federal court for the Northern District of California, seeking a declaratory judgment that the BioSpyder TempO-Seq gene expression profiling assay does not infringe any valid claim in U.S. Patent No. 8,741,564 (“the ’564 patent”) for Quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay […]

HERCULES, Calif. –Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, announced that the The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed that 10x Genomics willfully infringed U.S. Patent 8,889,083, exclusively licensed to Bio-Rad from the University of Chicago. The Appeals Court upheld […]

Bellevue (WA) – DRVISION Technologies LLC, a pioneer in computer vision, the world’s leading AI microscopy software company and the creator of Aivia has been issued two new US patents covering novel methods to train and apply machine learning models. AI based solutions continue to revolutionize all aspects of life including image-based discovery. Over the last […]

ANCOUVER, British Columbia — AbCellera Biologics today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Berkeley Lights, Inc. for patent infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 10,107,812; 10,274,494; 10,466,241; 10,578,618; 10,697,962; 10,087,408; 10,421,936; and 10,704,018. By its complaint, AbCellera is seeking a declaration by the […]

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today received a Supplementary Statement of Objections (SSO) from the European Commission (EU Commission) in the ongoing proceedings concerning the Sigma-Aldrich acquisition, which was completed in 2015. In July 2017, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, received a Statement of Objections from the European Commission. This relates to a packaging technology developed by […]