Invitrogen Settles Arcane Patent Dispute

by The Editors on May 29, 2007

And from the wide world of Carlsbad businesses that we don’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 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.

We’re sure there are quite a few Invitrogen employee who will be sleeping better tonight, in their Carlsbad beds.

[Link: Business Wire]

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