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Millipore Corp., the Billerica-based life sciences company, has filed a lawsuit to protect a patent for a sampling system marketed by the company.
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Newark, Del.-based W.L. Gore & Associates, the makers of medical and consumer products, including Gore-Tex.
Millipore alleges that W.L. Gore’s product infringes on the patent for components of Millipore’s NovaSeptum sampling system for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. The NovaSeptum sampling system is a sterile, disposable, completely enclosed sampling system for aseptic and sterile processes. Sampling is used to insure the safety and efficacy of a batch of a drug.
In 2007, Millipore successfully defended a patent in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against acts of infringement by Amesil Inc., and obtained a consent judgment issued by the Court against Amesil. The subject of that lawsuit was also a product that competed with components of Millipore’s NovaSeptum sampling system. Amesil was acquired by W.L. Gore in 2007.
Millipore, with more than 5,900 employees worldwide, reported a profit of $145.8 million on revenue of $1.6 billion for fiscal 2008.
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