Solexa, Inc. today announced that it has learned of a lawsuit filed in a California state court in Santa Clara County naming Solexa as a defendant. The complaint was filed by the Applied Biosystems Group of Applera Corporation on December 26, 2006. Solexa has not been served with the complaint. The suit relates to the ownership of several patents assigned in 1995 to Solexa's predecessor company, Lynx Therapeutics, by a former employee, Dr. Stephen Macevicz, who is named as a co-defendant in the suit. Lynx was originally a unit of AB and was spun out in 1992. The patents at issue in the suit relate to methods for sequencing DNA using successive rounds of oligonucleotide probe ligation (Sequencing-by-Ligation).

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