CareDx Owes Natera $96 Million in Trial on DNA Test Patents (1)

Jan. 26, 2024, 7:53 PM UTCUpdated: Jan. 29, 2024, 3:15 PM UTC

CareDx Inc. must pay Natera Inc. $96.3 million after a federal jury in Delaware found two of its DNA-based tests infringe patented technology for detecting organ-transplant rejections.

Jurors determined CareDx’s AlloSure test and its AlloSeq, used to identify the best donor match, infringe one of two patents related to the cell-free DNA tests, according to the verdict issued Jan. 26 for the trial’s liability phase in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.

The jury’s verdict in the trial’s damages phase awarded $83.7 million in lost profits for infringing sales of AlloSure, a royalty of $12.5 million for ...

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