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Illumina ordered to pay Chinese company $333 million in gene-sequencing patent case

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A Delaware jury on Friday ordered Illumina Inc to pay more than $333 million to a U.S. unit of Chinese genetic analysis company BGI Genomics after finding that Illumina's DNA-sequencing systems infringed two patents.The jury also said Illumina infringed the patents willfully, and that three patents it had

A Delaware jury on Friday ordered Illumina Inc to pay more than $333 million to a U.S. unit of Chinese genetic analysis company BGI Genomics after finding that Illumina's DNA-sequencing systems infringed two patents.

BGI and Illumina have been embroiled in a global legal battle over their respective sequencing technologies.

 

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