Genus suffers legal setback Stateside

12th Aug 2016 07:06

(ShareCast News) - Genus suffered a legal setback Stateside as a US judge handed down a series of verdicts against the animal genetics specialist.The US District Court for Wisconsin ruled that two of Genus rival ST´s patents were valid and had been infringed and that ABS, a unit of Genus, had materially broken its confidentiality obligations as set out in the 2012 semen sorting agreement between the two parties. The rulings were linked to Genus´s ABS unit´s GSS technology for sexing bovine semen that does not subject the sperm cells to high pressures and forces. UK-based Genus said it was still awaiting the judge´s decisión on a number of motions related to the provisions of the 2012 agreement and that it would update the market further when the rulings were made.A verdict on the damages related to those matters would be considered by the jury later this week, Genus said in a statement.