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21 September 2026NewsBiotechLiz Hockley

Oxford Nanopore scores urgent injunction at UPC in DNA sequencing fight

Judges agreed with the Oxford University spin-out that MGI Tech was likely to infringe Oxford’s patent, and banned sales of certain Cyclone devices to preserve the one-player-market status quo.

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