Digene Corp. said Friday it filed a lawsuit against Third Wave Technologies Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging the company infringes on its patented HPV test. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gaithersburg, Md.-based Digene said it is seeking an injunction and undisclosed compensatory damages. Digene makes DNA and RNA test that screen women for infectious diseases and cancers. Its test to detect HPV, or human papillomavirus, is the only one of its kind to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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