AbCellera Biologics Inc. v. Berkeley Lights, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ABCELLERA BIOLOGICS INC, et al., Case No. 20-cv-08624-JST
Plaintiffs,
CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER
v.
BRUKER CELLULAR ANALYSIS, INC., Defendant.
12 The parties propose competing constructions of ten terms from seven asserted patents in two families. The Court will construe the terms as follows. I. BACKGROUND The procedural history of this case is summarized in greater detail in the Court’s prior orders. See ECF No. 191, 252. Plaintiff AbCellera Biologics, Inc. (“AbCellera”) is a biotechnology company that discovers antibodies for the prevention and treatment of disease. ECF No. 254 ¶ 18. Together with Plaintiff The University of British Columbia (“UBC”), AbCellera patented the use of microfluidic devices for high-throughput single-cell secretion assays that can be applied to antibody discovery and cell clone selection. Id. ¶ 19. The present case is a consolidated action incorporating three patent infringement cases brought by Plaintiffs in the United States District…