Affy Sues Illumina in US and Europe Claiming Solexa Tech, BeadArray Infringes Its IP

Oct 25, 2007

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Affymetrix late yesterday said it has filed additional patent-infringement lawsuits against Illumina in the US, UK, and Germany claiming that the genome-analysis and array technologies Illumina acquired when it bought Solexa, as well as all of Illumina’s BeadArray products, infringe certain of its patents.

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