patent infringement

The ruling is the latest decision in the fight between the Broad and the University of California for control over the bulk of the IP rights to CRISPR-Cas9.

News items for the week of August 10, 2020.

Carlsbad, California-based BioSpyder said that HTG has repeatedly and baselessly accused it of infringing HTG's patent for quantitative nuclease protection assay and sequencing improvements.

The court also ordered a new trial to determine if 10x's products infringe reconstructed patents held by Bio-Rad Laboratories.

AbCellera claims that Berkeley Lights is infringing on eight patents related to the use of microfluidics, genomic sequencing, and other methods.

Natera sued Progenity in June but the firm said its Innatal cell-free DNA noninvasive prenatal test does not infringe any of Natera's six patents.

The suit comes shortly after Progenity filed for an initial public offering in which it is seeking to raise up to $122.6 million.

In its complaint, the Maryland-based company claimed that Natera infringes two of its patents, both titled "Methods for detection of genetic disorders."

Taiwan-based Personal Genomics, which is developing a new single-molecule sequencing platform, has previously sued PacBio for patent infringement in the US.

The company has added three recently issued patents to the suit, filed Jan. 27, all covering methods for amplifying and sequencing nucleic acids.