Affymetrix Licenses Microfluidics Technology From Caliper Life Sciences
The agreement announced is the second agreement since Caliper began an active program to out-license its intellectual property portfolio. The new "LabChip Driven" program was put in place to support the company's microfluidics adoption strategy and to broaden and accelerate the availability of new technologies and products for life science and diagnostics applications.
"The potential for merging two technologies on the forefront of life science innovation represents an important option for us," said Alan Sherr, Director of Licensing for Affymetrix. "We have worked successfully with Caliper as a partner for a year now, and are pleased to be able to extend the scope of our relationship with Caliper to this new area of potential value and importance to Affymetrix' customers."
The scope of the license agreement includes nucleic acids processing and handling associated with GeneChip arrays, but excludes the right to use LabChip technology with respect to products intended primarily to perform nucleic acid separations as a discrete, non-integrated quality control step.
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