In Brief: Roche/Organon Teknika
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Roche/Organon Teknika: Ink worldwide settlement agreement to end patent litigation pending in several countries including the U.S. related to nucleic acid amplification technology. Hoffmann-La Roche first brought suit against Teknika in 1995 in The Netherlands alleging that Teknika's NASBA RNA transcription-based gene amplification system infringed Roche patents covering its PCR polymerase chain reaction gene amplification technology. Since the initial suit was filed, Dutch and German courts have ruled in Teknika's favor in the disputes ("The Gray Sheet" Sept. 16, 1996, In Brief). Terms of the settlement are not being disclosed...