English High Court upholds Sequenom patent for prenatal test
US-based gene sequencing company Sequenom was handed a win yesterday after a UK court ruled that The Doctors Laboratory ( TDL) and Ariosa Diagnostics, which is owned by Roche, had infringed its patent.
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