Injunction Stops Sales Of Qiagen GeneReader
Executive Summary
The system was launched late last year, but a preliminary injunction issued by a federal court in California will now block Qiagen from marketing its GeneReader sequencing system in the US. Illumina had filed a patent claim against the system, and the court found that the claim is likely to succeed.
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