Legal Opinion

Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GmbH

Court of Chancery of Delaware

Decided February 22, 2013No. C.A. No. 5589-VCPPublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

PARSONS, Vice Chancellor.

This action is before me on a motion for summary judgment relating to, among other things, license rights to sophisticated diagnostic and assay technology. In 2003, a foreign pharmaceutical and diagnostic holding company lost or was in danger of losing its exclusive license to that technology. The holding company sought to acquire a new license from the then-patent holder. In 2003, the holding company entered into a series of contemporaneously executed agreements that granted it a new non-exclusive license from the patent holder. The plaintiffs, two Delaware…

2Cases cited39 opinions

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