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Japan's Yamatake Licenses OGT's Oligo IP to Develop Microarrays

Aug 08, 2006
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Japan’s Yamatake has licensed Oxford Gene Technology’s oligonucleotide microarray patents to make and sell its own arrays, OGT said today.
 
Yamatake will manufacture gemkey microarrays using in situ synthesis. Yamatake is the only Japanese company using in situ synthesis, said Michael Bennett, OGT’s vice president of licensing.
 
The company will market the microarrays through its distributor, Sigma-Aldrich Japan.
 
The license will remain valid for the patents’ lifetime.
 
Yamatake is the second Japanese company this month to license the patents from OGT: Japan’s NGK Insulators signed a similar deal Aug. 1.
 
Financial details were not disclosed.

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