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Ambry Genetics agrees to pay Roche royalties due for licensing of PCR technology

Published in Health Business Week, November 17th, 2006

Roche Diagnostics announced that its royalty dispute with Ambry Genetics has been settled.

The dispute involved Roche's Patent Portfolio for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and related technology.

Under the terms of the settlement, Ambry will pay Roche Diagnostics past royalties due in the field of Human In Vitro Diagnostics, and Roche Diagnostics has agreed to dismiss the arbitration proceedings it had initiated.

"Ambry acted in a completely responsible way after being advised of its obligations under our license agreement," said Melinda Griffith, senior VP and General Counsel at Roche Molecular Diagnostics, a business area of...

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