SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it has filed a patent infringement suit relating to BGI’s “CoolMPS” sequencing products. The complaint was filed against BGI Genomics Co., Ltd., BGI Americas Corp., MGI Tech Co., Ltd., MGI Americas, Inc. and Complete Genomics Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern […]
DUBLIN, Ireland – ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property held by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, announced today that the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected arguments filed in opposition to European patent No. EP2800811 jointly held by Dr. Charpentier, the Regents of the University of California, and […]
NEW YORK — Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) (the “Company”) today disclosed that Harbert Discovery Fund, LP (“Harbert”) filed a lawsuit against the Company and the members of its board of directors (“Board”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Enzo commented as follows: “We are disappointed but not surprised by […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has reached an agreement with Twist Bioscience under which Twist has agreed to pay Agilent a sum of $22.5 million to settle Agilent’s claims against Twist, as well as current and former Twist employees Emily Leproust, Siyuan Chen, and Solange Glaize. The claims […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced it has reached a settlement agreement with Agilent Technologies to resolve all claims and counterclaims in the trade secret litigation filed by Agilent on February 3, 2016. Under […]
A fully automated, high throughput rapid pathogen detection platform is scheduled for market release in April 2020 Crystal Diagnostics (CDx) announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued the company a second patent related to proprietary liquid crystal technology for rapid and accurate detection of foodborne pathogens. The Notice of Allowance complements […]
TUCSON, Ariz. — HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a life science company whose mission is to advance precision medicine, today announced it has received notification of validation of European patent number EP 3356554 for its methods for subtyping diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), effective October 2019. HTG was previously granted a patent for this […]
VERSAILLES, France — ALGENTECH, announces the issuance of a key patent in the field of genome editing by the U.S. Patent Office (U.S. patent number 10457950). The technology claimed by the patent amplifies the effectiveness of gene editing in eukaryotic cells and can be applied in synergy with nucleases, including zinc finger nucleases, TALENs, Crispr-Cas9… Algentech’s […]
MGI makes the following statement in response to Illumina’s patent litigation in the UK and Sweden: We believe these claims have no merit and are typical Illumina tactics intended to maintain a monopolistic market position and prevent choice from being offered to customers. We intend to vigorously defend ourselves, as we have in other jurisdictions. […]
SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it has filed two additional patent infringement suits relating to BGI’s sequencing products, including the DNBSeq-400 (also known as MGISeq-2000), DNBSeq-T7, and related chemistry reagents. The first complaint was filed against MGI Tech Co., Ltd. and Latvia MGI Tech SIA in the High Court of […]
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