Roche To Appeal Native Taq Ruling To Defend Scientific Integrity
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Roche Molecular Systems and parent company Hoffman-La Roche intend to appeal a Dec. 7 San Francisco federal district court ruling that the firm's native Taq polymerase patent is "unenforceable" because of inequitable conduct during Cetus Corp.' s patent application process in 1986, Roche said Dec. 8.