Agilent Technologies Granted Dismissal in Patent Infringement Suit Brought by Genetic Technologies
November 03 2014 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Unfounded Allegations Involve Agilent’s
Microarray Products
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that patent
infringement litigation claims against Agilent’s microarray,
Bioanalyzer and GeneSpring products have been dismissed by Genetic
Technologies, Ltd.
No settlement was involved; instead, Genetic Technologies
offered to dismiss its claims against Agilent. The parties today
filed a mutual dismissal of all claims, in which Genetic
Technologies dismissed its patent infringement claims and Agilent
dismissed its counterclaims relating to non-infringement and
invalidity.
“We are pleased with the outcome of this case,” said Marie Oh
Huber, Agilent senior vice president and general counsel. “Agilent
has steadfastly asserted that its microarray and other products do
not infringe the Genetic Technologies patent. Although Agilent
respects valid, enforceable intellectual property rights of others,
we will vigorously defend what we believe to be unfounded claims of
infringement.”
Genetic Technologies, based in Victoria, Australia, had accused
Agilent and other life sciences companies of infringing U.S. Patent
No. 5,612,179, titled “Intron Sequence Analysis Method for
Detection of Adjacent Locus Alleles as Haplotypes.” Genetic
Technologies had asserted that Agilent’s Bioanalyzer, genomic
hybridization microarrays and GeneSpring software products had
infringed the patent.
Since the inception of the case, Agilent has maintained that
none of its products perform the methods claimed in the patent and
that no Agilent customer has ever used an Agilent product to
perform such methods.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A), a global leader in life
sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, is the premier
laboratory partner for a better world. Agilent works with customers
in more than 100 countries, providing instruments, software,
services and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow.
Agilent generated revenues of $3.9 billion in fiscal 2013. The
company employs about 11,000 people worldwide. Information about
Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
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