GE Healthcare and Bio-Rad reach settlement in label-free detection lawsuit
Chalfont St.Giles, UK, August 13th, 2011 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced today that a settlement has been reached with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) in an intellectual property lawsuit related to GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ technology for studying molecular interactions with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR). In 2010, GE Healthcare had filed suit in Germany for infringement of SPR related patents against Bio-Rad. GE Healthcare and Bio-Rad have now agreed to settle their dispute and withdraw their claims pursuant to a license granting Bio-Rad access to a collection of GE Healthcare patents.
The licensed patents relate to certain aspects of GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ unique technology and BiacoreTM instrument for SPR-based quantitative studies of molecular interactions. This non-exclusive license grants Bio-Rad rights with respect to using GE Healthcare’s proprietary technologies in Bio-Rad’s own SPR products.
“This license recognizes the considerable value that our R&D effort and surface plasmon resonance technology brings to life scientists” said Johan von Heijne, General Manager Research Products, GE Healthcare. “We are pleased that granting this license to Bio-Rad will enable scientists to expand the use of SPR for molecular interaction and binding studies even further in pharmaceutical drug discovery and development, and in basic life sciences research.”
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