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The US District Court for the District of Delaware has denied a motion from Beckman Coulter to stay an patent infringement lawsuit involving Sysmex Corporation until parallel proceedings at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are concluded. 17 May 2022
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Illumina has been ordered to pay more than $333 million to Chinese sequencing company MGI—a subsidiary of BGI Group formally known as Complete Genomics—following a jury ruling that Illumina infringed two of its DNA-sequencing patents. 9 May 2022
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has renewed Auris Health’s attempt to invalidate Intuitive Surgical’s patent covering a robotic surgical tool. 3 May 2022
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A pressing need for more non-invasive prenatal tests is leading to increasing IP activity and commercial interest, say Fran Salisbury and Alice Jefferies of Mewburn Ellis. 19 April 2022
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A Texas jury has handed a $12 million victory to an Israeli company after finding that Danish company 3Shape’s dental scanner infringed one of its patents. 12 April 2022
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Abbot-owned St Jude Medical will have to defend claims that its catheters infringe a company’s revived patent. 12 April 2022
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Medical device companies have asked a US federal judge to eliminate an exemption that allows the bypassing of technological protections for copyrighted software if it is in service of using or repairing medical devices. 31 March 2022
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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. 29 March 2022
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Therabody has sued TJ Maxx’s parent company, alongside five “unauthorised” Amazon resellers for patent and trademark infringement, claiming they sell “knockoff” massage gun products. 15 March 2022
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A subsidiary of Tokyo-based FujiFilm has announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ultrasound machine maker Butterfly Network. 10 March 2022