Rav­gen con­tin­ues its le­gal re­venge saga with a $57M ver­dict over Nat­era

Rav­gen, a com­pa­ny that was a blip in pre­na­tal screen­ing not long ago, has con­tin­ued its streak of le­gal vic­to­ries against much larg­er com­pa­nies thanks to an­oth­er mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar ver­dict.

A ju­ry in the US Dis­trict Court for the West­ern Dis­trict of Texas de­cid­ed that Nat­era must pay Rav­gen $57 mil­lion for in­fring­ing on a Rav­gen patent, the com­pa­nies said on Tues­day.

In 2020, Rav­gen em­barked on a sprawl­ing le­gal cam­paign and ac­cused some of the biggest names in the test­ing busi­ness of copy­ing its non­in­va­sive pre­na­tal test. The small com­pa­ny was award­ed $375.5 mil­lion from Lab­o­ra­to­ry Cor­po­ra­tion of Amer­i­ca, bet­ter known as Lab­corp, af­ter a ju­ry ver­dict and a judge’s or­der for puni­tive dam­ages. Lat­er, oth­er lab gi­ants — Quest Di­ag­nos­tics, PerkinElmer and Il­lu­mi­na — set­tled for undis­closed sums.

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