 PO&F client, LabTech Systems Ltd, signs worldwide license agreement
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19 April 2007
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 | LabTech Systems Ltd, a listed Australian health care equipment and services company, and bioMérieux, a French-based world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announced today that they have signed an exclusive worldwide license agreement for LabTech Systems’ automated pre-poured media (PPM) streaker known as MicroStreak®.
Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick advised LabTech on its intellectual property, conducted research, and drafted and filed several patent and design applications.
The fully automated pre-poured media (PPM) streaker is an innovative, robotic system for the automation of routine agar plate processing undertaken in microbiology laboratories. This pre-analytical phase still remains manual and time-consuming in most laboratories worldwide. In the current trend of laboratory concentration, there is strong demand for automation that can standardize processes and provide traceability, timesaving and optimized workflow, as well as improved safety. LabTech Systems’ robotic instrument, which provides a solution at this early stage of the microbiology process, has major synergies with bioMérieux’s pre-poured media range. It also enhances bioMérieux’s current portfolio of automated solutions including BacT/ALERT® for blood culture, VITEK® 2 for identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing and DiversiLab® for microbial typing.
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