NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Enzo Biochem today said that PerkinElmer will pay the firm $7 million as part of a legal settlement reached between the firms last week.
The settlement ends a patent dispute dating back more than a decade. PerkinElmer was one of several defendants named by Enzo in a patent infringement suit initially filed in 2002 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case surrounded patents licensed to Enzo covering the labeling, hybridizing, and detection of nucleotides.
Specifically, Enzo had alleged that the defendants — including PerkinElmer, Sigma-Aldrich, GE Healthcare, Affymetrix, Orchid Biosciences, Molecular Probes, and Roche — were infringing 15 claims of eight different patents by selling certain reagent kits.
Enzo and PerkinElmer notified the court last Thursday that they had reached an agreement to settle the case and intended to file a notice of dismissal by today.