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Athena Diagnostics Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Ambry Genetics

By Philip Brooks

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The following item was posted on November 19, 2009 by MassDevice staff:

The Worcester, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher Scientific subsidiary accuses Ambry Genetics Corp. of violating one of its diabetes test patents.

Athena Diagnostics Inc. accused a California-based molecular biology firm of infringing one of its patents for a diagnostic test for certain forms of diabetes.

The Worcester, Mass.-based subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (TMO) filed suit against Ambry Genetics Corp. Nov. 18 in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

Athena alleges that Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Ambry has been using technology developed by Correlagen Diagnostics Inc., with which Athena has an exclusive licensing deal to develop a test for maturity onset diabetes of the young, also known as MODY.

Athena alleges that the clinical trials performed by Ambry violate a 2004 exclusive licensing agreement it inked with Correlagen. The company requested a jury trial and asked the court to enjoin Ambry from any further tests involving the technology and to award damages.

Full post as published by Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates on November 19, 2009 (boomark / email).