Illumina Files Patent Infringement Suit Against BGI Europe in Denmark

May 15, 2019

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This article has been updated with a statement from BGI.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Illumina said today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against BGI Europe, a subsidiary of BGI Group, in the Maritime & Commercial High Court of Denmark.

According to the complaint, BGI's sequencing products, including the BGISEQ-500 and MGISEQ-2000 instruments and related sequencing chemistry reagents of BGI Group subsidiary MGI Tech, infringe Illumina's European patent EP 3 002 289 B1, which covers sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry.

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