Biotage AB has together with its subsidiaries Biotage GB Ltd and Biotage LLC (collectively “Biotage”) been sued for patent infringement of the US patents no 8,066,875 B2 and 8,070,957 in the U.S. District court for the Southern District of California. The lawsuit has been filed by Scientific Plastic Products, Inc.

These lawsuits relate to the same patent family (US patents 7,138,061, 7,381,327 and 7,410,571) that Biotage was sued for patent infringement in 2009. As previously announced, the 2009 law suit is currently subject to stayed litigation proceedings in the court while awaiting resolution from reexamination proceedings in the US Patent and Trademark Office. The US patent no 8,066,875 B2 is a continuation of the US patent no 7,381,327. This law suit, as the previous one, concerns primarily Biotage’s sale of the product line SNAP in the US. The US patent no 8,070,957 is a continuation of the US patent 7,410,571 and it is a method patent that relates to the use of FLASH...