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9 May 2022AsiaAlex Baldwin

BGI wins $333m in DNA patent suit with Illumina

Illumina has been ordered to pay more than $333 million to Chinese sequencing company MGI—a subsidiary of BGI Group formally known as Complete Genomics—following a jury ruling that Illumina infringed two of its DNA-sequencing patents.

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