Tuesday, April 10, 2012

MIT, spinout sue Navigenics over patents - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Access to the filing does not includ e details of the case nor the nature ofthe filing. Foster City-basedc Navigenics develops technology to revea l genetic predisposition tohealth conditions. Last E8 Pharmaceuticals and MIT jointlysued , a developee of the first DNA microarray, allegintg that the company’s GeneChipp technology infringed on a patent owned by MIT and licensed by E8, accordinvg to a report on GenomeWeb. Both MIT and Affymetrix have claimed first developmen rights and ownership of the patent that takee sample DNA and creates genetic analysisfrom it.
E8 Pharmaceuticals was co-foundefd by MIT biology professorDavid Housman, an inventof included on the patenty related to the lawsuit against Affymetrix, and Richard a genetics professor at , the GenomeWev article reports.

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