QIAGEN : Comments on Preliminary Injunction and Confirms Intention to Defend its U.S. Intellectual Property Position

VENLO, The Netherlands and HILDEN, Germany, September 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) commented on a decision issued late on Friday, September 9, by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, in which the Court granted the motion for a preliminary injunction against the Company as part of patent litigation filed by a competitor. The lawsuit alleges infringement of U.S. Patent 7,566,537 by QIAGEN's GeneReader NGS System.

"While we are disappointed and disagree with the Court's decision, we believe our intellectual property position in next-generation sequencing is strong, and we are pursuing all legal means to get the current decision reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as soon as possible," said Peer M. Schatz, Chief Executive Officer of QIAGEN N.V. "The disputed intellectual property claim is related to a narrow step within the overall broad GeneReader NGS workflow. In addition, QIAGEN intends to accelerate the development already underway of an upgrade to the component under dispute to resume U.S. commercialization with a full workflow of at least comparable or even better performance. The issue in this case also applies only in the United States, so customers in all other regions of the world can continue to purchase and use the GeneReader NGS System."

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