MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leader in long-read, high-resolution sequencing, today announced that it has entered into a five-year settlement agreement with Oxford Nanopore and other parties of patent infringement litigation between the parties in the United Kingdom and Germany, under which Oxford Nanopore will refrain from offering “2D” sequencing products through the end […]

Merck today announced that the Chinese Patent Office has issued a notice granting Merck’s patent application for the company’s CRISPR technology used in a genomic-integration method for eukaryotic cells. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent in China covers integration of an external DNA sequence into the chromosome of eukaryotic cells Company to license CRISPR-related patents to interested parties, […]

Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE:A) has filed a civil lawsuit against Changzhou Pannatek Co., Ltd. (“Pannatek”), and a former employee of Agilent, alleging infringement of trade secrets, copyright of computer software, and petitioning the court to stop the defendants’ use of Agilent’s proprietary technologies. This follows the civil lawsuit Agilent filed last year against Shanghai Echrom […]

The European Patent Office has granted a patent to m2p-labs of Baesweiler, Germany, for an innovative microbioreactor device to facilitate high-throughput bioprocess optimization in the life science market. 48 microbioreactors are placed on a standard microtiter plate which is about the size of a smart phone. This is key in order to optimize a multitude […]

The patent covers the use of electronically focus-tunable lenses in Raman instruments and will, once implemented, bring Serstech’s hand-held Raman instrument another step closer to the large, non-portable instruments that reside in laboratories. The electronically focus-tunable lenses can automatically, and within milliseconds, locate and set the laser focus on the point in the sample where […]

Today, KeyGene announces that it has further extended its global Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) patent estate. On February 20, 2018, the USPTO granted U.S. Patent Nos. 9,896,721; US 9,898,576; and US 9,898,577, entitled “Strategies for high throughput identification and detection of polymorphisms.” KeyGene’s NGS worldwide patent estate now comprises more than 25 issued patents in […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leader in long-read, high-resolution sequencing, today announced that Judge Leonard P. Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied a motion to dismiss filed on December 14, 2017 by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. ONT had sought to dismiss Pacific Biosciences’ complaint for […]

MENLO PARK, Calif — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leader in long-read, high-resolution sequencing, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has issued U.S. Patent No. 9,910,956 (the “956 Patent”), entitled “Sequencing using concatemers of copies of sense and antisense strands.” The 956 Patent was issued on March 6, 2018, and covers novel […]

Newly patented hypergraph data model solidifies Riffyn’s position in the expanding market for linked-data analytics and AI in biotech and pharmaceutical R&D Oakland, CA, USA – Riffyn, a provider of cloud-based R&D software, announced that the United States Patent Office has granted its patent on a hypergraph data model for experiment design and data analysis (U.S. […]

La Vista, NE – Streck, Inc. has filed suit against Cenata GmbH, for infringement of its European Patent No. 2228453B1, in the German district court in Mannheim. The lawsuit accuses patent infringement based upon Cenata GmbH activities in noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which Cenata identifies on its website as involving the Harmony® Test. Streck is […]