NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Agilent Technologies will pay Enzo Biochem $9 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit between the companies, Enzo said today.
The suit alleged that Agilent had infringed on Enzo's U.S. Patent No. 7,064,197 for non-porous solid supports for fixed or immobilized nucleic acids. The legal action is more than a decade old — Enzo originally sued several companies, including PerkinElmer, Sigma-Aldrich, GE Healthcare, Affymetrix, Orchid Biosciences, Molecular Probes, and Roche, claiming the companies were infringing on eight different patents by selling certain reagent kits.
PerkinElmer settled with Enzo in June 2014 for $7 million, Siemens settled in July 2015 for an upfront payment of $9.5 million, Luminex settled in July 2015 for $7.1 million, and Affymetrix settled in October for $10 million.
In all, Enzo still has eight infringement cases pending before the court, the company said in a statement.