Jackson Lab resolves two lawsuits
The Jackson Laboratory has resolved a pair of separate patent infringement lawsuits.
The Bar Harbor-based biotechnology nonprofit was sued by the Central Institute for Experimental Animals of Kawasaki, Japan, which claimed Jackson Lab took credit for a certain strain of mouse the Japanese company invented. And in 2010, Sarasota, Fla.-based Alzheimer's Institute of America claimed Jackson Lab was infringing on its patent by distributing mice bred for Alzheimer's research, the Bangor Daily News reported. The lab's lawyers recently announced that a California federal court cleared Jackson Lab of infringement in the CIEA suit, and the two companies settled. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but legal counsel David Einhorn said the lab benefited from the settlement.
Jackson Lab was dismissed from the Alzheimer's Institute lawsuit after the National Institutes of Health, which funded the distribution of the Alzheimer's research mice, retroactively granted the lab authorization and consent to distribute the mice, according to the paper. The suits are the only two patent infringement suits ever brought against the organization.
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