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23andMe Sues Ancestry for Patent Infringement, Misleading Marketing

May 14, 2018
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – 23andMe sued rival Ancestry.com on Friday in a California federal district court, alleging infringement of its patented method of identifying relatives in a database and of false advertising. The company also asked the court to nullify the trademarked "ancestry" logotype.

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