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13 July 2023Big PharmaMarisa Woutersen

Illumina fined record €432m for completing Grail merger before EC approval

Commission says dealmakers ‘knowingly and intentionally’ breached standstill obligation | Grail receives the first-ever fine for a target company under EU merger rules.

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9 May 2022 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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BGI wins $333m in DNA patent suit with Illumina

9 May 2022 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.

Scientist accuses Illumina of long-running trade secrets plot

11 April 2023 Dispute stems from the theft of a data set of ZipCode sequences used in genetic testing | Plaintiff holds that pharma companies conspired against him | Cornell University claimed Thermo Fisher had misled it into settling a lawsuit in 2017.

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