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Intellectual Property

Sep. 14, 2016

Biotech company wins preliminary injunction in patent case

Illumina Inc., a DNA sequencing company, has won a preliminary injunction against a defendant accused of infringing its technology.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Illumina Inc., a DNA sequencing company, has won a preliminary injunction against a defendant accused of infringing its technology.

The decision by U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco involves a "rare and powerful case" in which two companies — the defendant being Qiagen NV — market desktop DNA sequencers that have similar methods of mapping the human genome.

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