Myriad Genetics sues competitors for patent infringement

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Within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling that human genes can not be patented, various companies and academic laboratories announced they would offer tests of those two genes, breaking the hold that Myriad Genetics held for nearly two decades. Many of the new tests were less expensive than the roughly $4,000 that Myriad charged for a full analysis of the two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.

But Myriad this week sued two of those competitors — Ambry Genetics and Gene by Gene — saying their tests infringed some of the more than 500 other patent claims that were not invalidated by the Supreme Court, for instance, on synthetic DNA used as probes and on methods of testing.

Read the full article here: 2 Competitors Sued by Genetics Company for Patent Infringement

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