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29 March 2022MedtechAlex Baldwin

Illumina gets $8m plus injunction from DNA sequencing suit

DNA-sequencing company Illumina has convinced a California court to bar Chinese pharma firm BGI Genomics from selling technology that infringes its genome-sequencing patents.

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