Complete Genomics Gets Trim Of Illumina’s DNA Tech IP Suit

Law360 (August 27, 2021, 7:55 PM EDT) — A California federal judge Friday trimmed Illumina’s lawsuit purportedly seeking to stop Complete Genomics’ “latest attempt at brazen infringement” of its DNA sequencing patents in a decade-long patent war, tossing a claim for literal infringement while declining to find a different Illumina patent invalid.

Illumina, a California-based publicly traded company with over $3 billion in revenue in 2018, has accused Complete Genomics Inc. of importing copycat sequencers that infringe three different patents. The rival companies have been fighting for at least a decade, including a suit currently pending in the same court.

The suit names CGI, its Chinese parent BGI Genomics…

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