ABI Sues Solexa Over Ownership of Sequencing-By-Ligation; Solexa Says IP Not Relevant to 1G Analyzer

Jan 02, 2007

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Applera’s Applied Biosystems group has filed a patent-ownership lawsuit against Solexa, Solexa reported Friday.

ABI filed the breach-of-contract complaint in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, on Dec. 26.

Solexa said the lawsuit disputes the ownership of several patents relating to methods for sequencing DNA using “successive rounds of oligonucleotide probe ligation," also called sequencing-by-ligation.

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