Venlo, The Netherlands and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) commented on a decision issued late on Friday, September 9, by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, in which the Court granted the motion for a preliminary injunction against the Company as part of patent litigation filed by a competitor. The lawsuit alleges infringement of U.S. Patent 7,566,537 byQIAGEN’s GeneReader NGS System.

“While we are disappointed and disagree with the Court’s decision, we believe our intellectual property position in next-generation sequencing is strong, and we are pursuing all legal means to get the current decision reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as soon as possible,” said Peer M. Schatz, Chief Executive Officer of QIAGEN N.V. “The disputed intellectual property claim is related to a narrow step within the overall broad GeneReader NGS workflow. In addition, QIAGEN intends to accelerate t