PCR NOTICE:
NOTICE TO PURCHASER
DISCLAIMER OF LICENSE: This product is optimized for use in the Polymerase Chain Reaction ("PCR") process covered by patents owned by Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd ("Roche"). No license under these patents to use the PCR process is conveyed expressly or by implication to the purchaser by the purchase of this product. Information on licenses to practice the PCR process may be obtained by contacting the Licensing Department, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 1145 Atlantic Avenue, Alameda, California 94501; Facsimile No. 510-814-2977.
OPENARRAY NT CYCLERS NOTICE:
NOTICE TO PURCHASER
This real-time thermal cycler is licensed under U.S. Patent No. 6,814,934 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof, and data analysis software for analyzing data generated from such real-time thermal cycler is licensed under U.S. Patent Nos. 7,188,030, 7272506, and 7,228,237 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof, in all cases solely for research and development and all other applied fields except human in vitro diagnostics and in all cases solely for use with OpenArrayTM through-hole array products that are licensed under U.S. Patent No. 6,027,873, 6,086,825, 6,090,251, 6,306,578, 6,387,331, 6,436,632, 6.743,633, 6,451,188, and 7,332,271 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof. No rights are conveyed expressly, by implication or estoppel to any patents on real-time methods, including but not limited to 5' nuclease assays, or to any patent claiming a reagent or kit with the exception of U.S. Patent No. 5,928,907, claims 12-28, covering real-time methods for instrumentation using a passive reference. This real-time thermal cycler may be covered by at least one of U.S. Patent No. 6,105,674, 5,475,610 (claims 160-163 and 167), 5,602,756, 6,703,236 (claims 1-6), and 7,238,517. For further information on purchasing additional rights, contact the Director of Licensing at Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California, 94404, USA or BioTrove, 12 Gill Street, Suite 4000, Woburn, MA 01801, USA.
OPENARRAY NT IMAGERS NOTICE:
NOTICE TO PURCHASER
This OpenArray™ NT instrument is licensed under U.S. Patent No. 6,027,873, 6,086,825, 6,090,251, 6,306,578, 6,387,331, 6,436,632, 6.743,633, 6,451,188, and 7,332,271 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof, and in all cases solely for use with OpenArrayTM through-hole array products that are licensed and in all cases solely for research and development and all other applied fields except human in vitro diagnostics. This OpenArray™ NT instrument is also accompanied with a limited license permitting Biotrove Inc. or Applied Biosystems Inc. to convert this specific instrument to a real-time thermal cycler, subject to the forgoing limitations, such license including rights to U.S. Patent No. 6,814,934 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof and U.S. Patent No. 6,105,674, 5,475,610 (claims 160-163 and 167), 5,602,756, 6,703,236 (claims 1-6), 7,238,517, and 7,188,030, 7272506, and 7,228,237. No rights are conveyed expressly, by implication or estoppel to any patents on real-time methods, including but not limited to 5' nuclease assays, or to any patent claiming a reagent or kit with the exception that such license includes rights to U.S. Patent No. 5,928,907, claims 12-28, covering real-time methods for instrumentation using a passive reference. For further information on purchasing additional rights, contact the Director of Licensing at Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California, 94404, USA or BioTrove, 12 Gill Street, Suite 4000, Woburn, MA 01801, USA.
OPENARRAY PLATES NOTICE:
NOTICE TO PURCHASER
This OpenArrayTM through-hole array product is licensed under U.S. Patent No. 6,027,873, 6,086,825, 6,090,251, 6,306,578, 6,387,331, 6,436,632, 6,743,633, 6,451,188, and 7,332,271 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof solely for research and development and all other applied fields except human in vitro diagnostics and where interrogation of such array product requires thermal cycling of the samples such array product contains then this array product is licensed solely for use with thermal cyclers (whether real-time or basic thermal cyclers) that are either not be covered by patents owned by Applera Corporation or, if covered by such patents, then such thermal cyclers must be purchased from a licensed supplier of such thermal cyclers. No rights are conveyed expressly, by implication or estoppel to any other patent claim (such as apparatus or system claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,814,934). No rights are conveyed expressly, by implication or estoppel to any patents on real-time methods, including but not limited to 5' nuclease assays, or to any patent claiming a reagent or kit with the exception of U.S. Patent No. 5,928,907, claims 12-28, covering real-time methods for instrumentation using a passive reference. For further information on purchasing additional rights, contact the Director of Licensing at Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California, 94404, USA or BioTrove, 12 Gill Street, Suite 4000, Woburn, MA 01801, USA.
OPENARRAY AUTOLOADERS NOTICE:
NOTICE TO PURCHASER
This sample loader and methods of loading is licensed under apparatus and method claims of U.S. Patent 7,211,148, 6,849,127, 6,893,877 and 6,579,367 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof solely for research and development and all other applied fields except human in vitro diagnostics and in all cases solely for use with OpenArrayTM through-hole array products that are licensed under U.S. Patent No. 6,086,825, 6,090,251, 6,306,578, 6,387,331, 6,436,632, 6,743,633, 6,451,188, and 7,332,271 and corresponding claims in any foreign counterpart patent thereof. No rights are conveyed expressly, by implication or estoppel to any other patent claim (such as apparatus or system claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,814,934). For further information on purchasing additional rights, contact the Director of Licensing at Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California, 94404, USA or BioTrove, 12 Gill Street, Suite 4000, Woburn, MA 01801, USA.