Patents, Licences and Trademarks
microLYSIS® is a registered trademark of Microzone Ltd., Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK
Human cDNAOK is a registered trademark of Microzone Ltd., Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK
DNAMITE® is a registered trademark of Microzone Ltd., Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK
BaseQ® is a registered trademark of Microzone Ltd., Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK
BigDye is a registered trademark of Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, USA
WAVE® is a trademark of Transgenomics Inc. USA
LI-COR® is a registered trademark of LI-COR, Inc. USA
Products from Epicentre Technologies are sold in agreement with Cambio Ltd. UK
Tough-Taq is licensed under claims 1-5 of US Patent No. 5,436,149; this product is not licensed under claims
6-16 of US Patent No. 5,436,149 covering Long and Accurate (LA) Technology and this sale does not provide
either express or implied authorisation to practice the invention under claims 6-16 of such patent
Tough-Taq is sold as KlenTaq1™ in the United States
KlenTaq1™ is a trademark of DNA Polymerase Technology, Inc.USA
Thesit™ is a trademark of Boehringer Mannheim, Germany
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) process is covered by patents owned by Hoffmann-La Roche Corp.
Use of the PCR process requires a licence.
Licensed Research Products Sold for use in Amplification
Patent Rights
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) process is covered by patents owned by Hoffmann-La Roche Corp. Use of the PCR process requires a licence.
Notice to Purchaser: Limited Licence
A Licence under US patents 4,683,202, 4,683,195 or their foreign counterparts, owned by Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Roche), has an upfront fee component and a running-royalty component to use only this amount of the product to practice the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and related processes described in said patents solely for the research and development activities of the purchaser when this product is used in conjunction with a thermal cycler whose use is covered by the upfront fee component.
Rights to the upfront fee component may be purchased from Perkin-Elmer or obtained by purchasing an Authorised Thermal Cycler. No right to perform or offer commercial services of any kind using PCR, including without limitation reporting the results of purchaser's activities for a fee or other commercial consideration, is hereby granted by implication or estoppel. Further information on purchasing licences to practice the PCR process may be obtained by contacting the Director of Licensing at Perkin-Elmer Corporation, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California 94404 or at Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 1145 Atlantic Ave, Alameda, California, 94501 and outside the US at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
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