Instrument Makers Expand Deal, File Suit
Sep 8, 2004 — FOSTER CITY, Calif., and TORONTO, Sept. 8 -- Applied Biosystems Group, an Applera Corp. scientific instruments business based in Foster City, Calif., and MDS Inc., a health and life sciences company in Toronto, announced on Sept. 1 they will expand the life science mass spectrometry joint venture they established in 1986 in Toronto. MDS has agreed to pay $40 million for a 50 percent interest in intellectual property assets related to current Applied Biosystems MALDI TOF (matrix-assisted laser...