{"id":72,"date":"2007-05-29T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2007-05-29T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T02:34:54","slug":"invitrogen-settles-arcane-patent-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Invitrogen Settles Arcane Patent Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And from the wide world of Carlsbad businesses that we don&#8217;t understand or know anything about comes this stunner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Invitrogen Corporation<\/strong> and <strong>Clontech Laboratories, Inc<\/strong>. have jointly announced a confidential settlement of their patent litigation, following a jury decision last week in federal district court in Greenbelt, Maryland. As part of the settlement, Clontech has agreed that Invitrogen Patent Nos. 5,244,797, 5,668,005, 6,063,608, and 5,405,776 on RNase H minus reverse transcriptase (RT) are valid and enforceable. Clontech has discontinued sales of its RNase H minus RT products, including its PowerScript products, for the life of the patents. The parties did not disclose other details of their agreement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re sure there are quite a few Invitrogen employee who will be sleeping better tonight, in their Carlsbad beds.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#38;ct=us\/7-0&#38;fd=R&#38;url=http:\/\/home.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/index.jsp%3FndmViewId%3Dnews_view%26newsId%3D20070529006199%26newsLang%3Den&#38;cid=1116797932&#38;ei=beFcRqLyA4uaqgPe5J3PDQ\" target=\"_blank\">Business Wire<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And from the wide world of Carlsbad businesses that we don&#8217;t understand or know anything about comes this stunner: Invitrogen Corporation and Clontech Laboratories, Inc. have jointly announced a confidential settlement of their patent litigation, following a jury decision last week in federal district court in Greenbelt, Maryland. As part of the settlement, Clontech has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}