In August, US equity markets experienced broad gains driven by positive economic data and government spending. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ ended the month up 3.5%, 3.4% and 1.5%, respectively. Economists projected a 2% GDP growth for the US for the third quarter. The Commerce Department revised the US second-quarter GDP […]
Company Announcements Roche Applied Science opened an Application Support Center in Shanghai, China, in May. Thermo Fisher Scientific named two new directors in May: Thomas J. Lynch, CEO of Tyco Electronics, and Tyler Jacks, PhD, David H. Koch professor of Biology at MIT. MDS Analytical Technologies appointed Bio-Strategy as its new distributor for Australia and […]
Billerica, MA and Austin, TX 8/11/09—Millipore will distribute Luminex’s FLEXMAP 3D system for research applications. “Millipore has an extensive global reach that covers academic, reference and pharmaceutical research laboratories, and we are excited to have the company as a distribution partner for the groundbreaking FLEXMAP 3D instrument,” stated Darin Leigh, vice president of Sales and […]
Wilmington, DE 8/13/09—Life Technologies has filed a patent infringement action against Bio-Rad Laboratories in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. The law suit alleges infringement of four patents: US Patent Nos. 6,703,484; 7,223,566; 7,259,242 (each entitled “Methods for Production of Proteins”); and 7,265,206 (entitled “Methods of Production of Proteins”). The complaint alleges […]
Pleasanton, CA 8/24/09—Hitachi High-Technologies America announced that on August 6 the US District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit brought against the company by Brigham Young University and Torion Technologies (see IBO 12/15/08). The suit alleged infringement of US Patent No. 7,060,987 (“Electron Ionization Source for Orthogonal Acceleration […]
Woburn, MA 7/01/09—Agiltron, a developer and manufacturer of photonic and optical components, has acquired the assets of Raman Systems for an undisclosed amount. Raman Systems was founded in 1997 and provides portable, compact, affordable benchtop Raman systems. Agiltron stated that its expertise in manufacturing photonic components and systems will allow it to produce systems with […]
Shelton, CT 8/27/09—PerkinElmer has signed an expanded distribution agreement with VWR International. The agreement covers PerkinElmer consumables and accessories, as well as FT-IR and UV/Vis spectroscopy solutions, such as the LAMBDA XLS and Bio spectrophotometers. “While customers have always been able to find us through our sales and service professionals and through the web, offering […]
Billerica, MA 8/20/09—Bruker has announced that the Japan Patent Office has invalidated Digilab’s (Varian’s) Japanese Patent Number 3 076 013 on a Focal Plan Array-based imaging Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) system. As a result, Bruker Optics Japan and other manufacturers can now sell imaging FT-IR spectrometers and FT-IR microscope systems with ATR imaging capabilities in […]
Compared to the first quarter of the calendar year, little changed in the second quarter for a number of major, publicly held analytical instrument and laboratory product companies. However, several companies indicated that they believed the worst effects of the recession were over. In fact, many companies reported sequential improvements in either orders or sales […]
India’s 2009–2010 budget, finalized on July 29, shows a continuing commitment to funding science and technology. The country’s Ministry of Science and Technology, which is in charge of much of the government’s R&D spending, received a 13.6% budget increase to INR 4125 crore ($843.6 million). In addition, infrastructure spending by the Ministry of Chemicals and […]
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