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Digene Corp. v. Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2009)

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- On April 1st, the Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment of the District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin that Defendant-Cross Appellant Third Wave Technologies, Inc. did not infringe U.S. Patent No. 5,643,715, owned by Plaintiff-Appellant Digene Corp. The panel also affirmed the District Court's grant of summary judgment dismissing Third Wave's antitrust counterclaims. The '715 patent relates to the diagnosis of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 52, which is one of several HPV strains known to cause cervical cancer. The '715 patent describes the differentiation of HPV type 52 from other HPV types using "nucleic acid...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).