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Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Wins Summary Judgment for Illumina in Patent Infringement Suit

March 22, 2013

Attorneys from Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP have successfully defended leading life-science company Illumina against patent infringement claims brought by Life Technologies Corporation.

Life Tech filed the lawsuit against Illumina in 2009, asserting that Illumina’s market-leading next-generation DNA sequencing instruments infringed Life Tech’s patents directed to systems and methods for DNA amplification and detection (U.S. Patent Nos. 5,616,478; 5,958,698; and 6,001,568). On March 20, 2013, District Court Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Illumina’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of all asserted claims in the three patents, ruling that “Life Tech cannot establish, as a matter of law, that the accused Illumina systems infringe” the claims.

Partner Kevin Flowers, Ph.D., led the successful defense, along with partner Mark Izraelewicz.

A copy of the court’s order is available here.

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