Incyte Licenses Disputed Microarray Technology to American Home

Oct 03, 2000

NEW YORK, Oct 3 – In the midst of an intellectual property battle with Affymetrix (Nasdaq: AFFX) over a non-PCR based RNA technology that researchers use in microarray-based gene expression analysis, Incyte Genomics (Nasdaq: INCY) said Tuesday it had licensed the related patents to American Home Products (NYSE: AHP) for internal use with Affy’s GeneChips.

AHP, a Madison, NJ-based pharmaceutical company, is also a subscriber to Incyte’s LifeSeq gene sequence database.

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