US patent number 10,266,850 was previously involved in an interference proceeding  DUBLIN, Ireland: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, announced today that the US Patent Office has issued US patent number 10,266,850 to Dr. Charpentier, together with The Regents of the […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 29, 2019– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it has filed a patent infringement suit against BGI Group’s subsidiary, Latvia MGI Tech SIA, in the Düsseldorf Regional Court in Germany. The complaint alleges that BGI’s sequencing products, including the BGISeq-500, MGISeq-2000, and related chemistry reagents, infringe EP 1 530 578 B1. This patent covers […]

Merck today announced that the Canadian Patent Office has allowed Merck’s patent application directed to the use of paired CRISPR nickases in eukaryotic cells. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent covers paired Cas9 nickase technology to advance gene therapy and research, reduce off-target effects Marks company‘s 13th CRISPR patent overall Actively licensing CRISPR-related patents to interested parties Darmstadt, […]

Merck, a leading science and technology company and leader in genome editing, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a formal… DARMSTADT, GERMANY Proxy-CRISPR technology provides solution to improve genome editing and advance new possibilities for research Helps modify difficult-to-access regions of the genome, increasing genome coverage Merck, a leading […]

Merck today announced that it has been granted Patent No. US 10,193,695 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patented technology provides a solution for the secure integration of physical products into the digital world Technology can protect integrity of supply chains and avoid counterfeit Merck, a leading science and technology […]

Today the European Patent Office revoked Pacific Biosciences patent EP3045542 with claims to a single molecule sequencing process wherein two strands of DNA are linked by a connecting nucleic acid. The validity of the patent had been challenged by Oxford Nanopore. The EPO ruled that the claims to a single molecule sequencing process were unsupported […]

WALTHAM, Mass. and SARASOTA, Fla. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP), a leading diversified technology company, today announced that Thermo Fisher’s pending acquisition of Gatan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Roper, requires further review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK. Both parties continue […]

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HERCULES, Calif.– A Federal District Court jury yesterday found that 10X Genomics willfully infringed three United States patents owned by the University of Chicago and exclusively licensed to Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products (NYSE: BIO and BIOb). In awarding Bio-Rad $23.9 million in damages, the jury unanimously […]