In this issue, IBO presents its second look this year at patent infringement litigation involving lab instrument and product companies. New Suits Legal activity has heightened between Illumina and sequencing services provider Complete Genomics. In June, Illumina filed a second patent infringement suit against publicly held Complete Genomics, which is set to be acquired by […]

R&D investment by the one thousand public companies that spend the most on R&D increased 9.6% in 2011 to $603 billion after a 9.3% increase the previous year, according to Booz & Company’s eighth annual “Global Innovation 1000” report. R&D spending by the computing and electronics, health care and automobile industries accounted for 28%, 21% […]