Example
On December 28, 1995, a Synteni (now Incyte Genomics) patent application WO/95/35505 was published describing a new microarray invention. A Synteni competitor, Affymetrix, filed a patent application describing almost exactly the same invention within six months. This patent application issued as U.S. Patent 5,800,992. Affymetrix then sued Synteni for patent infringement. The case was eventually settled with both parties cross-licensing their patents to each other.
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