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 […]

The proprietary TRU-E/N™ method for utmost quantification accuracy Founded by the inventors of Proton-Transfer-Reaction – Mass Spectrometry more than 20 years ago, IONICON has always been renowned for absolutely precise control of the ion chemistry during chemical ionization. ION-BOOSTER funnel and hexapole ION-GUIDE with TRU-E/N For IONICON this fact is still true even after the introduction […]

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 […]

SAN DIEGOT Allele Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received issuance notices from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its first batch of patents covering the derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Allele’s proprietary technology uses only messenger RNA (mRNA) to reprogram human or other primate cells, avoiding many operational complications that other methods […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it sent a letter to the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding misstatements in the S-1 Registration Statement filed by Twist Bioscience Corp. The letter informs the SEC that “Twist’s S-1 Fails to Disclose that Twist CEO […]

This is the 31st DART-related patent for IonSense and further strengthens its position in ambient ionization. The invention enables high-throughput screening of drugs of abuse. SAUGUS, Mass. — IonSense, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent related to its Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®) mass spectrometry technology.  […]

WAKEFIELD, Mass.–Genetics Research LLC, an inventor of innovative technologies for the development of products for genomic analysis in research, diagnostics, and therapeutics, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the Company U.S. Patent No. 10,081,829, entitled “Detection of targeted sequence regions.” The patent covers a novel method for enriching sequence specific nucleic […]