MORRISON & FOERSTER REPRESENTS ACON LABORATORIES IN $175 MILLION ACQUISITION BY INVERNESS MEDICAL INNOVATIONS

A patent litigation dispute between two medical diagnostic companies that had been fought in the U.S. and Europe for almost three years has reached a surprise ending this week: a win-win for both parties. Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. has agreed to acquire the rapid diagnostics business from ACON Laboratories, Inc. for $175 million. The deal ends a patent infringement case brought by Waltham, MA-based Inverness in 2004 over some of ACON's core rapid test diagnostic technology.
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