lawsuit

A jury last week determined Quest did not steal trade secrets from Cedars-Sinai or breach its contract with the hospital in developing a serological IBS test.

Sysmex alleges multiple Beckman Coulter analyzers of infringing two patents covering technology for sensing blood or fluid samples. 

The case, which was originally being fought between Enzo and Hologic, was decided in favor of Becton Dickinson, Hologic's co-plaintiff.

Among the claims, NeuMoDx has alleged that BD was kept up to date on the firm's technology as it was developed and that one of the patents was duplicitously expanded by BD.

The ruling overturned a lower court decision that blocked ACLA's suit challenging the data collection process used by CMS to set test prices under PAMA.

Guardant told a federal judge that it believes Foundation Medicine and Personal Genome Diagnostics are coordinating to invalidate its patents.

The company's patent related to labeled nucleotides for use as diagnostic tools and as therapeutic agents has been invalidated.

The complaint alleges that NeuMoDx is willfully infringing on six BD-held patents, and demands injunctive relief, damages, and a jury trial.

A UK court determined that Ariosa's licensee infringed upon at least one claim of Illumina's European patent 1 524 321 and upheld the patent's validity.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has denied Foundation Medicine's request for Inter Partes review.