Affymetrix Licenses Microfluidics Technology From Caliper

Caliper Life Sciences and Affymetrix announced that Caliper has issued Affymetrix a nonexclusive license to use a portion of Caliper's microfluidics patent estate with Affymetrix' GeneChip microarray technologies. The license extends to the manufacture and sale of GeneChip brand products in all areas of application, including research, diagnostics and applied genomics applications. In exchange for the license, Affymetrix will pay upfront licensing fees and royalties on future products covered under the agreement. Further financial details related to the agreement were not disclosed.

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