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Affymetrix files more patent infringements against Illumina in U.S. and Europe

Published on October 24, 2007 at 10:19 PM · No Comments

Affymetrix Inc. has announced that it has filed additional patent infringement lawsuits against Illumina Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, in the U.K. High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, Patents Court and in the German, Düsseldorf Regional Court, Patent Division. Affymetrix is seeking all available remedies, including injunctive relief.

The new suits target technology offered by Solexa, the company acquired by Illumina in January 2007, as well as all of Illumina's BeadArray products. Affymetrix also filed new lawsuits in Germany and the U.K. because the infringing acts extend beyond the U.S. market.

The filings include the following patents:

Patent Number	Patent Title	ILMN Products Covered

5,902,723	Analysis of Surface Immobilized Polymers Utilizing Microfluorescence Detection	Assays, products, and associated instrumentation under the name BeadArray ™ technology, including, but not limited to, the Infinium ® II assay.
6,403,320	Support Bound Probes and Methods of Analysis Using the Same	Products and associated instrumentation under the name BeadArray technology, including, but not limited to, all of Illumina's Sentrix ® Array Matrix and BeadChip arrays, the BeadArray Reader, and the detection instrument used to decode all of Illumina's BeadArray arrays.
6,420,169	Apparatus for Forming Polynucleotides or Polypeptides	Products and associated software and instrumentation under the name Solexa Sequencing technology, including, but not limited to, the Genome Analyzer, Clonal Single Molecule Array technology, and the 1G Genome Analysis System.
6,576,424	Arrays and Methods for Detecting Nucleic Acids	Products and associated instrumentation under the name BeadArray technology, including, but not limited to, BeadArray arrays used with the Infinium ® I and II and Direct Hybridization assays.
7,056,666	Analysis of Surface Immobilized Polymers Utilizing Microfluorescence Detection	Products and associated software and instrumentation under the name Solexa Sequencing technology, including, but not limited to, the Genome Analyzer, Clonal Single Molecule Array technology, and the 1G Genome Analysis System
0834575	Identification of Nucleic Acids in Samples	Assays, products, software, and associated instrumentation under the name BeadArray technology, including, but not limited to, all Illumina genotyping and gene expression assays.
0853679	Expression Monitoring by Hybridization to High Density Oligonucleotide Arrays	Assays, products, software, and associated instrumentation under the name BeadArray technology, including, but not limited to, all Illumina gene expression assays.
0799897	Kits and Methods for the Detection of Target Nucleic Acids with the Help of Tag Nucleic Acids	Assays, products, software, and associated instrumentation under the name BeadArray technology, including, but not limited to, all Illumina GoldenGate ® and DASL ® assays and arrays.

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