Caris Life Sciences Sues Foundation Medicine, Alleging Patent Infringement

Nov 08, 2017

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Caris Life Sciences filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Foundation Medicine yesterday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Boston Division.

The Irving, Texas-based company claims that three of Foundation Medicine's cancer genomic profiling tests — FoundationOne for solid tumors, FoundationOne Heme for hematological tumors and sarcomas, and the liquid biopsy test FoundationAct — infringe five of its US patents.

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