A U.S. court has ordered MJ Research, a division of Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., to pay an additional $15 million in damages to competitors Roche Molecular Systems and Applied Biosystems for infringing on patents. The decision brings the total amount MJ Research must pay to about $35 million. The ruling comes a year after a jury concluded that MJ Research "willfully" infringed patents related to polymerase chain reaction and awarded $19.8 million in damages, Applied Biosystems said Monday. The U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn. also dismissed all of MJ Research's antitrust counterclaims against Applied and Roche.

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