Law360 (November 16, 2006, 12:00 AM EST) -- Enzo Biochem Inc. said on Thursday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ordered a proceeding to determine whether the biotechnology company or the California Institute of Technology owns the rights to a patent covering DNA gel sequencing technology.
The patent at the center of the dispute, U.S. Patent No. 5,821,058, was issued in 1998 to Cal Tech, which licenses the patent exclusively to Applied Biosystems Inc., a division of Applera Corp. It covers technology involves gel sequencing, which is the primary technique for sequencing...
Interference Proceeding Ordered In DNA Tech Spat
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