March 2025—Qiagen announced that the German Federal Patent Court has ruled in Qiagen’s favor in a patent dispute against SD Biosensor. The court’s decision upholds Qiagen’s intellectual property rights involving the German part of European patent EP 3 421 997, which protects key innovations in tuberculosis detection. Patents covering these innovations have been issued to Qiagen in several other countries, the company said in a press statement, and form part of a group of more than 120 patents currently issued for QuantiFeron.
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