Intellectual Property: Biotechnology

DI can create animations to reveal molecular-level events, explain complicated scientific concepts, or illustrate cutting-edge nanotechnology.

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DNA Microarrays. DI's graphics illustrating DNA microarray technology helped Affymetrix's attorneys show that Illumina infringed several Affymetrix patents. The verdict ultimately led to a $90 million settlement for Affymetrix.

Antibody Demo. This animation illustrates the components of human immunoglobin (IgG), created from a Protein Databank file that is publicly available. DI's ability to work with this file type was very efficient because it eliminated much of the modeling effort and allowed the expert to testify with familiar scientific data that was published and reliable.

Taq Polymerase. This example was part of a collection of animations used in a patent dispute in which the key player was role of Taq Polymerase, a molecule which has become vital to molecular biology by enabling the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a process used to amplify DNA in the laboratory.

DNA Language Analogy. Patent claims involving the genetic code are complicated because it is foreign to judges and jurors. This animation was used in a tutorial presentation to explain the basics of the genetic code and to set up the idea of codon degeneracy, a concept critical to understanding the structure of the claims at issue.