IGEN MUST PRODUCE DOCUMENTS ON EISAI RELATIONSHIP.The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has granted a motion by Roche Diagnostics Roche Diagnostics Division is a subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche which manufactures equipment and reagents for research and medical diagnostic applications. Internally, it is organized into six major business areas: Roche Applied Science, Roche Centralized Diagnostics, Roche GmbH to compel IGEN to produce documents pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to IGEN's relationship with Eisai Ltd ("Eisai"). Eisai is a Japanese diagnostic company which had licensed IGEN's electrochemiluminescence ("ECL (Emitter-Coupled Logic) A digital circuit composed of bipolar transistors in which the emitter ends are wired together. ECL gates switch faster than TTL gates, but consume more power. See TTL, I2L and bipolar. 1. ") technology in 1990. Roche Diagnostics and IGEN are currently in litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. over claims surrounding the License and Technology Development Agreement between Roche Diagnostics and IGEN entered in 1992 relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc that same ECL technology. Roche Diagnostics has a number of claims against IGEN, including a claim that IGEN induced Roche Diagnostics into entering the License and Technology Development Agreement in 1992 by misstating the scope of Eisai's ECL rights in Japan, and IGEN's intentions with respect to the expansion of Eisai's ECL rights in the future. Roche Diagnostics also states that IGEN has breached this Agreement by granting additional rights to Eisai in Japan, which infringe in·fringe v. in·fringed, in·fring·ing, in·fring·es v.tr. 1. To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate: infringe a contract; infringe a patent. 2. upon the worldwide, exclusive rights granted to Roche Diagnostics by IGEN under the Agreement. IGEN had declined to produce documents relating to Eisai, thus requiring Roche Diagnostics to seek an order from the Court. The Court has now ordered IGEN to produce promptly those documents for Roche Diagnostics. The litigation between Roche Diagnostics and IGEN was initiated in September 1997 stemming from a dispute between the parties relative to the Agreement. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world's leading research-oriented healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and vitamins. Roche's innovative products and services address needs for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, thus enhancing people's well-being and quality of life. Roche has approximately 63,900 employees and sells its products in over 170 countries. The Roche Group posted sales of 20.3 billion Swiss francs Noun 1. Swiss franc - the basic unit of money in Switzerland franc - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes centime - a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and in the first nine months of 2000. In the first half of 2000 the company's net income amounted to 3 billion Swiss francs. It invested 1.9 billion Swiss francs in research and development. Through the company's Diagnostics Division, innovative testing products and services are made available to physicians, patients, hospitals and laboratories worldwide. For more information, call 312-240-3389. |
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