Il­lu­mi­na strikes $325M deal to end years-long patent bat­tles

Af­ter spend­ing the last 10-plus years in court, Il­lu­mi­na and BGI Group have reached a $325 mil­lion set­tle­ment to re­solve a num­ber of patent and an­titrust claims across the US cen­tered around the com­pa­nies’ DNA se­quenc­ing tech­nol­o­gy.

Il­lu­mi­na is fork­ing over the $325 mil­lion to set­tle claims fol­low­ing two re­cent ju­ry de­ci­sions in Delaware and Cal­i­for­nia, as well as an an­titrust case in Cal­i­for­nia, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment on Thurs­day from MGI Tech, a BGI af­fil­i­ate.

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