MGI respects the court’s ruling on Illumina’s request for a preliminary injunction, but we do not agree with this decision and we are evaluating our options including an immediate appeal of this ruling. MGI also looks forward to the final decision on this matter after a full trial on the merits has occurred. In […]
SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction order against several BGI companies, including MGI Tech Co., Ltd., Complete Genomics Inc., BGI Americas Corp., and MGI Americas Inc. The preliminary injunction was granted in two patent infringement lawsuits that […]
SAN DIEGO — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue US Patent No. 10,676,352 on June 9th, 2020. The patent, titled “NANONOZZLE DEVICE ARRAYS: THEIR PREPARATION AND USE FOR MACROMOLECULAR ANALYSIS,” covers the addition of a detector, such as a nanopore, to Bionano’s patented nanochannels. […]
HSINCHU, Taiwan — Personal Genomics Taiwan, Inc. (“PGI”), today announced that it has filed a patent infringement complaint in the Wuhan People’s Court in China against Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (“PacBio”). The complaint asserts that PacBio’s Sequel and Sequel II, as well as related commercialization activities by PacBio, its agents and certified service providers, infringe one or more […]
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany today announced that two of its Life Science business’ CRISPR-assisted genome-editing patents have been allowed in the United States. Technology provides more tools to fight difficult-to-treat diseases Life Science business actively licensing its CRISPR-Cas9 technology for therapeutic and other uses Committed to ethical use of genome-editing technology Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, […]
LexaGene Files Patent Application for Expanded Capabilities of Their LX Analyzer To meet higher COVID-19 testing needs in reference laboratories BEVERLY, Mass. – LexaGene Holdings, Inc., (OTCQB: LXXGF; TSX-V: LXG) (the “Company”), a biotechnology company that develops genetic analyzers for rapid pathogen detection and other molecular markers, announced today the filing of a provisional patent application […]
Merck today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company’s patent for CRISPR-chrom technology. CRISPR-chrom technology improves access to genome for more efficient editing Only U.S. patent holder in the CRISPR chromatin space Company driving innovation in CRISPR gene-editing technologies Darmstadt, Germany — Merck, a leading science and technology […]
The UK has formed a genome sequencing alliance, to enable rapid, broad, large-scale sequencing analysis of samples from patients testing positive for COVID-19. The resulting data will help deliver insights into how the virus is transmitted and how it evolves. Oxford Nanopore is delighted to support participating teams across the UK in this project, including […]
After more than one week of evidence, a federal jury in Delaware found in favour of Oxford Nanopore and invalidated all four patents asserted by Pacific Biosciences (“PacBio”) in this litigation. During the trial, the jury heard evidence that PacBio had never performed nanopore sequencing, before or after they filed patents that allegedly cover nanopore […]
Menlo Park – Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, announced that the jury verdict in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware was not overall favorable for Pacific Biosciences, but mixed in terms of its findings. Although the jury sided with Pacific Biosciences […]
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