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Illumina Expands IP Offer to Help Save PacBio Deal as Oxford Nanopore Cries Foul

Nov 20, 2019
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NEW YORK – Illumina has expanded its offer to open sequencing-related intellectual property held by itself and Pacific Biosciences to competitors in order to persuade the UK's Competition and Markets Authority to allow its planned $1.2 billion acquisition of PacBio to go forward.

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