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Article: Illumina Countersues Life Technologies for Patent Infringement.
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- October 14, 2009
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SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq:ILMN) today announced that, together with Solexa its wholly owned subsidiary, it has filed its initial response to the lawsuit brought by Life Technologies and Applied Biosystems on September 21, 2009 in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. In their answer, Illumina and Solexa have denied all of Life's and AB's allegations of patent infringement, and have asserted that AB's licensed patents are invalid. In their counterclaims, Illumina and Solexa have sued Life and AB for infringement of four Solexa patents by Life's SOLiD[R] sequencing system. These four patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 6,831,994; 6,654,505; 7,232,656; and 7,598,035 ...