NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Idaho Technology said today it has a signed a licensing agreement with E.I du Pont de Nemours, more commonly known as DuPont, covering reagents and methods using Idaho Tech's Sybr Green I technology and post-PCR melting curve analysis.
The deal was reached through DuPont's Qualicon Business.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
In a statement, Idaho Tech said that it extends the company's ongoing program to license "its broad and valuable intellectual property portfolio in cooperation with Roche Diagnostics." Idaho Tech licensed the rapid PCR technology from the University of Utah. It developed the LightCycler PCR-based platform and sublicensed it to Roche.
The agreement announced today took effect on June 18.
Since the start of 2009, the company has reached other licensing deals covering its PCR technology with Life Technologies Applied Biosystems business, Qiagen, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Finnzymes, now part of Thermo Fisher.