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2 September 2021MedTechAlex Baldwin

BGI didn’t infringe one Illumina patent, fails to invalidate another

The US District Court for the Northern District of California has denied an attempt by Chinese company BGI Genomics to invalidate an Illumina DNA sequencing patent in a summary judgment, leaving the dispute over infringement of another Illumina patent to be decided at trial.

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